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spar-stone Obs. exc. dial.
Also 1 spærstan, 2 -ston, 4 sperstane, 5 sparre stone.
[In sense 1 repr. OE. spærstán: see spar n.2 In sense 2 directly f. the latter word.]
†1. Gypsum; plaster. Obs.
c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 146 Creta argentea, spærstan. c1050Voc. Ibid. 334 Gipsum, spærstan. c1150Voc. Ibid. 550 Gipsum, spærston. 1394–6Cartul. Abb. de Whiteby (Surtees) 623 Item pro sperstane et ratonbrede emptis, 11 s. 11 d. 1481in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 345 Usque ad quandam querruram de plaster vocatam Sparre stone.
2. A stone or rock having a crystalline appearance; quartz, spar.
1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 655/1 If you cannot get the Lapis Judaicus, our English Spar-stone, (which is plentiful enough in those Countries where there are Leaden-mines) may supply the place. 1880Cornw. Gloss. 53 A man of penetration he, For through a spar-stone he could see. |