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Jews' stone, Jewstone
[In senses 1, 2, rendering med.L. lapis Judaicus (Lanfranc's Cirurgie 278, and Minsheu Ductor).]
1. The fossil spine of a large sea-urchin, found in Syria, formerly used in medicine. ? Obs.
1633Hart Diet of Diseased iii. xx. 312 Some medicines..are esteemed good against the stone..of this kind is the Iewes stone, goats blood [etc.]. 1751Sir J. Hill Mat. Med. 302 Lapis Judaicus, The Jews Stone,..is no other than the Spine of a large Echinus Marinus of a peculiar Species. 1888Syd. Soc. Lex., Jew's stone, see Lapis judaicus [a stone found in Palestine, and formerly used as a diuretic and lithontriptic, as well as in fluxes].
2. A crystallized form of iron pyrites (also called marcasite), formerly used as a gem. ? Obs.
1617Minsheu Ductor, Marchesite..etiam Iewes stone. 1658Phillips, Jewstone, a kind of stone called also a Marchesite. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola I. vii, The ‘Jew's stone’, with the lion-headed serpent enchased in it.
3. Applied locally to various hard rocks.
1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. xxv. 313 Jew stone..This quarriers' term is evidently used to designate all hard unmanageable rocks of uneven and splintery fracture. 1885Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Jew-stone. 1. Geol. A local name for a black basalt found on the Clee Hills. 1890Cent. Dict., Jews'-stone..local name of a limestone-bed belonging to the White Lias (Rhætic) in Somersetshire. |