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Webster 1913 Edition

Emerald

Em′er-ald

,
Noun.
[OE.
emeraude
, OF.
esmeraude
,
esmeralde
, F.
émeraude
, L.
smaragdus
, fr. Gr. [GREEK]; cf. [GREEK]kr.
marakata
.]
1.
(Min.)
A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See
Beryl
.
2.
(Print.)
A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare[GREEK]l. It is used by English printers.
☞ This line is printed in the type called emerald.

Em′er-ald

,
Adj.
Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.
“Emerald meadows.”
Byron.
Emerald fish
(Zoöl.)
,
a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (
Gobionellus oceanicus
), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; – whence the name; – called also
esmeralda
.
–
Emerald green
,
a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele’s green; – also used adjectively;
as,
emerald green
crystals
.
–
Emerald Isle
,
a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure.
–
Emerald spodumene
, or
Lithia emerald
.
(Min.)
See
Hiddenite
.
–
Emerald nickel
.
(Min.)
See
Zaratite
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Emerald

EM'ERALD

,
Noun.
[L. smaragdus.] A mineral and a precious stone, whose colors are a pure, lively green, varying to a pale,yellowish, bluish, or grass green. It is always crystallized, and almost always appears in regular, hexahedral prisms, more or less perfect, and sometimes slightly modified by truncations on the edges, or on the solid angles. It is a little harder than quartz, becomes electric by friction, is often transparent, sometimes only translucent, and before the blowpipe is fusible into a whitish enamel or glass. The finest emeralds have been found in Peru.
The subspecies of emerald are the precious emerald and the beryl.

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