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The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
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Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
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Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
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One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
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Adorned with diamonds; diamondized.
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A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
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One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds.
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Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
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Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
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Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.
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The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
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Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque.
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Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape; as, an uncut diamond.
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The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
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To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich.
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That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond.
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The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
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A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
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Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.
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Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
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