jasper

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.

2. 2

   An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking…

   An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.

3. 3

   Jasperware pottery.

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   1. 4

      To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

   2. 5

      A wasp.

   3. 6

      A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

      • And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
      • Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper
   4. 7

      A stranger.

   5. 8

      A male given name from Old Persian.

      • Her husband is...let me see...oh yes, he's Lord Jasper Jayne. His name sounds like the hero of a servant's novelette, but he doesn't look like that. He looks like a chucker-out in a back-street pub.
   6. 9

      A surname.

   7. 10

      One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.

   8. 11

      A placename

      A placename:

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