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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[NL., from L.

onyx

-ychis

, onyx, also, a kind of mussel, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK]. See

An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.

Ex. xxx. 34.

The precious stone called

onyx

[R.]

Noun.

[from Gr.] Supposed to be the odoriferous shell of the onyxfish, or the onyx. Ex. 30.