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JASPER , an opaque compact variety of See also:quartz, variously coloured and often containing argillaceous See also:matter. The See also:colours are usually red, See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown, yellow or See also:green, and are due to admixture with compounds of See also:iron, either oxides or silicates. Although the See also:term jasper is now restricted to opaque quartz it is certain that the See also:ancient jaspis or iavais was a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone of considerable translucency. The jasper of antiquity was in many cases distinctly green, for it is often compared with the See also:emerald and other green See also:objects. Jasper is referred to in the Niebelungenlied as being clear and green. Probably the jasper of the ancients included stones which would now be classed as See also:chalcedony, and the emerald-like jasper may have been akin to our See also:chrysoprase. The See also:Hebrew word yashefeh may have designated a green jasper (cf. See also:Assyrian yashpu). See also:Professor See also:Flinders See also:Petrie has suggested that the odem, the first stone on the High See also:Priest's breastplate, translated " See also:sard," was a red jasper, whilst tarshish,
the tenth stone, may have been a yellow jasper (See also:Hastings's Dict. See also:Bible, 1902).
Many varieties of jasper are recognized. Riband jasper is a See also:form in which the colours are disposed in bands, as in the well-known ornamental stone from See also:Siberia, which shows a See also:regular See also:alternation of dark red and green stripes. See also:Egyptian jasper is a brown jasper, occurring as nodules in the Lybian See also:desert and in the See also:Nile valley, and characterized by a zonal arrangement of See also:light and dark shades of See also:colour. See also:Agate-jasper is a variety intermediate between true jasper and chalcedony. Basanite, lydite, or Lydian stone, is a See also:velvet-See also:black flinty jasper, used as a touchstone for testing the purity of See also:precious metals by their streak. See also:Porcelain jasper is a See also:clay indurated by natural calcination. (F. W.
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