Contextualizebeta

bloodstone

noun
/ˈblʌdˌstoʊn/US

Etymology

From blood + stone, from the fact that the red inclusions in the stone resemble blood.

  1. derived from *steyh₂-✻ — “to stiffen”
  2. inherited from *stainaz✻ — “stone”
  3. inherited from *stain✻
  4. inherited from stān
  5. inherited from ston
  6. compounded as bloodstone — “blood + stone”

Definitions

  1. A green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite.

    • These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
    • The magician wore a blood-stone ring […]

  2. Hematite.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bloodstone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA