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Webster 1913 Edition

Jasper

Jas′per

,
Noun.
[OE.
jaspre
,
jaspe
, OF.
jaspre
,
jaspe
, F.
jaspe
, L.
iaspis
, Gr. [GREEK]; cf. Per.
yashp
,
yashf
, Ar.
yashb
,
yasb
,
yasf
, Heb.
yāshpheh
. Cf.
Diaper
.]
(Min.)
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called
striped jasper
or
banded jasper
. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper.
Jasper opal
,
a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.
–
Jasper ware
,
a delicate kind of earthenware invented by
Josiah Wedgwood
. It is usually white, but is capable of receiving color.

Webster 1828 Edition

Jasper

J`ASPER

,
Noun.
[L. iaspis.] A mineral of the siliceous kind, and of several varieties. It is less hard than flint or even than common quartz, but gives fire with steel. It is entirely opake, or sometimes feebly translucent at the edges, and it presents almost every variety of color. Its varieties are common jasper, striped jasper, Egyptian jasper, &c. It admits of an elegant polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff-boxes, &c.
Jasper is a subspecies of rhomboidal quartz, of five kinds, Egyptian, striped, porcelain, common, and agate jasper.

Definition 2024

Jasper

Jasper

See also: jasper

English

Proper noun

Jasper

  1. A male given name, an English variant of Caspar.
    • 1920 St. John Greer Ervine, Changing Winds, Macmillan 1920, page 225:
      Her husband is...let me see...oh yes, he's Lord Jasper Jayne. His name sounds like the hero of a servant's novelette, but he doesn't look like that. He looks like a chucker-out in a back-street pub.
  2. One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
  3. A town in Alberta, Canada.
  4. A city and county seat in Alabama.
  5. A city and county seat in Arkansas.
  6. A city and county seat in Florida.
  7. A city and county seat in Pickens County, Georgia.
  8. A city and county seat in Indiana.
  9. A city in Minnesota.
  10. A city in Missouri.
  11. A town in New York.
  12. A town and county seat in Tennessee.
  13. A city and county seat in Texas.

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Finnish

Etymology

Recently borrowed from English Jasper.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɑsper/
  • Hyphenation: Jas‧per

Proper noun

Jasper

  1. A male given name of modern usage.

Declension

Inflection of Jasper (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative Jasper Jasperit
genitive Jasperin Jasperien
Jaspereiden
Jaspereitten
partitive Jasperia Jaspereita
Jaspereja
illative Jasperiin Jaspereihin
singular plural
nominative Jasper Jasperit
accusative nom. Jasper Jasperit
gen. Jasperin
genitive Jasperin Jasperien
Jaspereiden
Jaspereitten
partitive Jasperia Jaspereita
Jaspereja
inessive Jasperissa Jaspereissa
elative Jasperista Jaspereista
illative Jasperiin Jaspereihin
adessive Jasperilla Jaspereilla
ablative Jasperilta Jaspereilta
allative Jasperille Jaspereille
essive Jasperina Jaspereina
translative Jasperiksi Jaspereiksi
instructive — Jasperein
abessive Jasperitta Jaspereitta
comitative — Jaspereineen

jasper

jasper

See also: Jasper

English

A jasper ball (2)

Noun

jasper ‎(uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  2. (mineralogy) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  3. Jasperware pottery.
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Etymology 2

From the male personal name Jasper.

Noun

jasper ‎(plural jaspers)

  1. (Britain, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
  2. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
    • 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
      Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 122:
      “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
    • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit, The Saturday Evening Post
      "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."

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French

Verb

jasper

  1. apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
    Jasper la tranche d’un livre.

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