= sense 1a.

= almandine, n. Now historical.

A garnet with a tinge of blue; (also) an amethyst.

†(a) = rock ruby, n.(obsolete); (b) rock, or a rock, of a ruby colour, or consisting (wholly or mainly) of ruby.

A kind of garnet with a violet tint. Also almandine garnet. Cf. alabandine, n. 1, almandite, n.

= rock ruby, n.

Mineralogy. A deep red variety of garnet containing magnesium and aluminium. More fully pyrope garnet.

= almandine, n.

a name given to various brown and yellow kinds of garnet, esp. to a cinnamon-coloured variety from Ceylon.

A brown or reddish variety of garnet, with resinous lustre.

A large precious stone of a red or fiery colour: in early use of unsettled identity, as a ruby, garnet, spinel, etc.; (also) a mythical gem said to…

A pale-green variety of garnet from Siberia, often called the gooseberry garnet.

A variety of garnet resembling topaz in colour.

A variety of garnet containing calcium and aluminium. Also called cinnamon-stone, grossularite.

An emerald-green variety of garnet.

Garnet containing manganese in place of calcium; manganese garnet.

= almandine, n.

A variety of lime-irongarnet.

Mineralogy. = spessartine, n. Chiefly North American.

(See quots.)