Crossword-Solution: LAPIDARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lapidary | n. | An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones. |
| Lapidary | n. | A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. |
| Lapidary | a. | Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation. |
| Lapidary | a. | Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “LAPIDARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Relating to the engraving, cutting, or polishing of stones or gems | 1 answer |
| Relating to the cutting and polishing of stones | 1 answer |
| Person who cuts and polishes stones | 1 answer |
| One who makes cameos | 1 answer |
| A person who cuts, polishes, and sets gemstones | 1 answer |
| Artist who makes cameos | 1 answer |
| COLLECTOR of gems | 1 answer |
| CUTTING and polishing of gems | 1 answer |
| Diamond dealer | 1 answer |
| Expert in stone engraving | 1 answer |
| Gem worker | 1 answer |
| Gemologist | 1 answer |
| Gemstone cutter | 1 answer |
| Stonecutter | 2 answers |
| STONE worker | 2 answers |
| Gem cutter | 2 answers |
| Gem engraver | 2 answers |
| Jeweler? | 6 answers |
| Engraver | 6 answers |
| funereal | 50 answers |
| Jeweller | 50 answers |
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Sentences with LAPIDARY (5)
Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
And the Duke, too, you tell me, is an amateur of gems." "Eh, madonna, I wish that you could see his jewels," cried Guido, growing fervent; and he lovingly catalogued a host of lapidary marvels.
People that had lighted on a new thought or a thought that they fancied new, came to Emerson, as the finder of a glittering gem hastens to a lapidary, to ascertain its quality and value.
Stanley, having pretended to linger to smoke, fled suddenly up-stairs to petrography, and when Veronica tapped he answered through the locked door, “Go away, Vee! I’m busy,” and made a lapidary’s wheel buzz loudly.
And if you like to know the virtues of the diamond, (as men may find in _The Lapidary_ that many men know not), I shall tell you, as they beyond the sea say and affirm, of whom all science and all philosophy cometh from.
Quotes with LAPIDARY (3)
Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.
Belize: Hell or heaven? [Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance]Belize: Like San Francisco. Roy Cohn: A city. Good. I was worried... it'd be a garden. I hate that shit. Belize: Mmmm. Big city. Overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up catty corner to that. Windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth, fierce gusts of gritty wind, and a gray high sky full of ravens. Roy Cohn: Isaiah. Belize: Prophet…
Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn't the real problem, though it took him a long time to figure out what was. She needed resistance, the very quality that metal most demonstrably offered up. Suddenly Glynis had no difficulty to overcome, no hard artisan's life with galleries filching half the too-small price of a mokume brooch that had…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1973–2006).