Emerald

n.	1.	(Min.) A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.
	2.	(Print.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare l. It is used by English printers.
a.	1.	Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. Emerald fish (Zool.) a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; - whence the name; - called also esmeralda. Emerald green a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; - also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals. Emerald Isle a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure. Emerald spodumene (Min.) See Hiddenite. Emerald nickel (Min.) See Zaratite.

Noun	1.	emerald - a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone
	2.	emerald - a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
	3.	emerald - the green color of an emerald

Emerald - An object-oriented distributed programming language and environment developed at the University of Washington in the early 1980s. Emeral was the successor to EPL. It is strongly typed and uses signatures and prototypes rather than inheritance. ["Distribution and Abstract Types in Emerald", A. Black et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-13(1):65-76 (Jan 1987)].

To see an emerald in your dream, signifies that you will inherit some property that will cause problems with others.adamant, aestival, agate, alexandrite, amethyst, aquamarine, beryl, beryl-green, berylline, bloodstone, blue-green, bluish-green, brilliant, carbuncle, carnelian, chalcedony, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, citrine, citrinous, coral, demantoid, diamond, foliaged, garnet, girasol, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, harlequin opal, heliotrope, holly, hyacinth, ivy, ivy-green, jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, lapis lazuli, leafy, leaved, moonstone, morganite, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, onyx, opal, peridot, plasma, porraceous, rose quartz, ruby, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, smaragdine, spinel, spinel ruby, springlike, summerlike, summery, topaz, turquoise, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-green

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