单词 | mocha pebble |
释义 | > as lemmasMocha pebble 1. Moss agate or a similar form of chalcedony with dendritic markings, often used to make jewellery, etc. More fully Mocha pebble, Mocha stone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > chalcedony > other varieties of chalcedony Mocha stone1679 sapphirine1866 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > others jasperc1330 jaspa1350 jaspis1382 jasper stone1517 diasper1582 Mocha stone1679 haytorite1827 sapphirine1866 1679 Will of Dan. Bennett (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/361) f. 17v My Mocus stone Ring. 1695 E. Lhuyd Let. 14 Nov. in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. Oxf. (1945) XIV. 291 Mr Cole's..moko's are fine stones, to please woemen and children. 1701 Philos. Trans. 1700–1 (Royal Soc.) 22 927 Many brown reticulated and undulated streaks, which..appear like the Coralline branches in a polisht Mocha-stone. 1704 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne (1882) I. 180 A gold Moco Stone chain set in Gold. 1728 J. Woodward Catal. Foreign Fossils i. 16 in Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils A Mochoa-Stone, with Delineations of Shrubs. 1753 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 249 Some new acquisitions of shells, agates, mocoes, and a thousand fine things. 1769 Public Advertiser 29 May 3/4 Beautiful oriental Mocoas, Antiques, Seed Pearl. 1771 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 17 The Earl of Wandesford had one of them sawn into a slab, and it is as beautiful as a Moco. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II 157 Pictured mochoes tesselate the ground. 1804 J. Sowerby Brit. Mineral. I. 171 Mocoas are a sort of agate with dendrites or figures like sprigs, trees. 1843 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 11 415 On Substances inclosed in Mochastones. [Note This word is evidently used with considerable latitude, and by no means confined to the bodies so named in this country.] By Karl Mueller. 1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan II. iii. iv. 50 Any Mocha stone, fortification agate, or Scotch pebble. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 369/1 Dendritic markings.., due to infiltration of oxides of manganese and iron, produce the variety of agate known as Mocha stone. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) III. 6/2 Chalcedony of a black to red-brown color, containing manganese or iron, has been called mochastone. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 4 Dec. ix. 14/1 With its mocha stone surfaces, brass trim and sky blue dome, the Crystal Court has an even tonier presence than Jewel Court. < as lemmas |
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