garnet

1. n. 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. Source: opted

2. n. A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out. Source: opted

3. n. any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive Source: wordnet

4. 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. A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out. Clew garnet. See under Clew. Source: webster

5. A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in theirconstituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), andconforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest coloris red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that ofquartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms. Source: adambom

6. n:100 n. any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive Source: ecdict

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