specular stone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Specular Stones were a shining kind of Substance, and (according to Basil ) transparent like the Air."
- "One use of mica or of selenite that especially merits notice is mentioned by Pliny, when, speaking of the material of which bee-hives should be formed, he says many had made them of the specular stone, that they might see the bees at work within."
- "The servants removed all the first tables, brought in others, then strewed the floor with saw-dust tinged with crocus and vermilion, and (what I had never seen before) with specular stone beaten to powder."
- "It were but madnes now t'impart The skill of specular stone, When he which can have learn'd the art To cut it, can finde none."
- "He also mentions the property of cleavage of the specular stone (lapis specularis): 'The specular stone, which deserves also to be called a stone, is sectile (sectilis) and can be cut into slices as thin as can be desired...."
- "They were furnished with wooden sashes in which were placed transparent or specular stones. These were of various kinds:"