Aventurine

[ә'ventjurin]

Definition

(n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

(n.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

Typist: Suzy

Definition

n. a brown spangled kind of Venetian glass: a kind of quartz.—Also Avan′turine.

Typed by Carlyle