Word Meanings - MOONSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.

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• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.
• PELLUCIDLY
  In a pellucid manner.
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• OPALINE
  Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• FELDSPAR; FELDSPATH
  A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather
• CEYLONESE
  Of or pertaining to Ceylon. -- n. sing. & pl.
• SHOW
  1. To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem. Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden. All round a hedge upshoots, and shows At distance like a little wood. Tennyson. 2. To
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• SHOWBREAD
  Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in
• SHOWN
  p. p. of Show.
• SHOWISH
  Showy; ostentatious. Swift.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• SUBPELLUCID
  Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• SUBVARIETY
  A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.