Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BLOOD'STONE
BLOOD'STONE, n. [blood and stone.]
- A stone, imagined, if worn as an amulet, to be a good preventive of bleeding at the nose. [See Hematite.]
- In gem sculpture, a species of heliotrope dotted with spots of jasper. – Elmes.
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