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† cassidoine, -done, -dony1 Obs.
Forms: α. 4 cassidoin, casydoyn, 7 cassidoin(e; β. 5 cassedon(ne, 5–6 cassidon, 6 cassaydown, cassa-, cassidone, -en; γ. 7 cassidonie, 8 cassidony; δ. 6 casyldon, cassilden.
[a. OF. cassidoine, a semi-popular form of calcidoine, calcedoine, ad. L. chalcedōnius (lapis) a stone of Chalcedon: see chalcedony.]
= chalcedony.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 286 Suþþe riche cassidoines, And Jacinctes and topaces. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1471 Casydoynes, & crysolytes, & clere rubies. 1488Inv. Jas. III, in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 392 A collar of cassedonis. 1500Inv. in Ann. Reg. (1768) 135 A pair of beads ten stones, cassidens. 1503Will of Both (Somerset Ho.), A peyre of bedes of Casyldon. c1530in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 297 A garnysshing for a Salte for a Cassadone. 1534in Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 195 Item x bedes of lambre & ij cassildens with a stryng of silk. 1548Will of Dame M. Kingston (Somerset Ho.), A paire of beades of Cassaydown. 1601Holland Pliny II. 454 We digged into the same earth for Cassidonie and Crystall. Ibid. 605 In these crystals as well as in Cassidoins. 1611Cotgr., Cassidonie, a cassidonie; a base, and brittle stone, of small value, though it shine like fire. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Cassidony, a name given by the Italians and Germans to a sort of beads made of the yellow and red chalcedony.
attrib.1601Holland Pliny II. 603 These rich Cassidoine vessels [called in Latine Murrhina] from out of the Leuant. |