Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for JEWS'-STONE
JEWS'-STONE, n.
The clavated spine of a very large egg-shaped sea urchin petrified. It is a regular figure, oblong and rounded, about three quarters of an inch in length, and half an inch in diameter. Its color is a pale dusky gray, with a tinge of dusky red. – Hill.
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