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Webster 1828 Edition


Balas

BAL'AS

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Noun.
A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. Its crystals are usually octahedrons, composed of two four-sided pyramids, applied base to base. [See Spinel.]

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balas

balas

See also: balás, bālas, and bālās

English

Noun

balas (plural balases)

  1. (archaic) A type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby (now usually used attributively: balas-ruby).

Anagrams


Hausa

Noun

balàs m

  1. (financial) balance
  2. payment due for work done

Hiligaynon

Noun

balás

  1. sand

Latin

Verb

bālās

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of bālō

Lithuanian

Adjective

balas m (feminine balà, stress pattern 4)

  1. Alternative form of báltas (white)

Portuguese

Noun

balas

  1. plural of bala

Spanish

Verb

balas

  1. Informal second-person singular () present indicative form of balar.