Word Meanings - SEMIPRECIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.
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- SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. - PRECIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness. - PRECIOUS
1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. "The precious bane." Milton. 2. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which - PRECIOUSLY
In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically. - STONESMICKLE
The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch. - SEMIPRECIOUS
Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals. - PROTOMETALS
A finer form of metals, indicated by enhanced lines in their spark spectra , obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures ; as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium,