emerald (emerald)

and a. [The term.altered after Sp., "It., etc.; formerly also emerant, emeraud, emraud, emerod, emrod; directly E. smaragd, q. v.), In that Lond Men fynden many fayre Emeraudes and y Mandeville , Travels, p. 49. no we. The semes ech on, As it were a maner garnishing, Was set with emerauds one and one. Flower and Leaf, 1. 142. 2. The name in Great Britain of a size of printing-type, intermediate between minion (which is larger) and nonpareil (which is smaller), and measuring 138 lines to the foot. It is not used in the United States.-3. In entom., one of several small green geometrid moths, as the gra emerald, Pseudoterpna pruinata, and the E ex emerald, Phorodesma smaragd aria.- Emerald-green. See green. - Lithia emerald, or emerald • spodumene, an emerald-green variety of spodumene, also called hiddenite, from Alexander county, North Carolina. It is used as a gem. II. a . Of a bright green, like emerald. My sliding chariot stays, Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue and emerald green. Milton, Comus, 1. 894. That vast expanse of emerald meadow. Macaulay. Thro' which the lights, rose, amber, emerald , blue, Flush'd. Tennyson, Palace of Art. Emerald copper. See dioptase. - Emerald Isle, Ireland: so called from its verdure. The epithet is said to have been first applied to it by Dr. William Drennan of Belfast, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, in his poem called "Erin." - Emerald nickel. See nickel.