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A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

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  1. n. A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
  2. n. A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
  3. n. One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
  4. n. A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
  5. n. The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
  6. n. The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
  7. a. Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
  8. n. a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
  9. n. very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
  10. n. a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
  11. n. a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
  12. n. the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate