Definitions
1.NounA person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones.
2.NounThe field in which such a person works, a subfield of gemology.
3.NounAn expert in gems and precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.":"
4.NounAn expert in gems and precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.":"
5.NounGems and precious stones collectively; jewellery.
6.NounA treatise on (precious) stones.
7.AdjectiveOf or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of cutting or otherwise working them.
8.AdjectiveOf or pertaining to monumental stones, and particularly to the art of inscribing them.
9.Adjective: engraved on stone.
10.AdjectiveSenses relating to speech or writing.
Pertaining to a way of speaking which is circumlocutional, is excessively precise, and is multifaceted in the construction of propositions.
Of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately.
11.AdjectivePertaining to a way of speaking which is circumlocutional, is excessively precise, and is multifaceted in the construction of propositions.
12.AdjectiveOf a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately.
13.AdjectiveOf or pertaining to stones in general.
14.AdjectiveSuccinct, laconic.