GARNETS
Etymology 1
Noun
garnets
plural of garnet
Etymology 2
Noun
garnets (plural garnets)
(historical) An old Russian dry measure, approximately 3.28 litres.
Anagrams
• Sargent, Stagner, Stanger, Strange, argents, gerants, rangest, strange
Source: Wiktionary
GARNET
Gar"net, n. Etym: [OE. gernet, grenat, OF. grenet,grenat, F. grenat,
LL. granatus, fr. L. granatum pomegranate, granatus having many
grains or seeds, fr. granum grain, seed. So called from its
resemblance in color and shape to the grains or seeds of the
pomegranate. See Grain, and cf. Grenade, Pomegranate.] (Min.)
Definition: A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their
constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and
conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color
is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of
quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.
Note: There are also white, green, yellow, brown, and black
varieties. The garnet is a silicate, the bases being aluminia lime
(grossularite, essonite, or cinnamon stone), or aluminia magnesia
(pyrope), or aluminia iron (almandine), or aluminia manganese
(spessartite), or iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite),
or chromium lime (ouvarovite, color emerald green). The transparent
red varieties are used as gems. The garnet was, in part, the
carbuncle of the ancients. Garnet is a very common mineral in gneiss
and mica slate. Garnet berry (Bot.), the red currant; -- so called
from its transparent red color.
– Garnet brown (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff, produced as an
explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or golden luster.
It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of
picric acid.
Gar"net, n. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.)
Definition: A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out. Clew garnet. See under
Clew.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition