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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,

 

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