Definition for BLOOD'STONE

BLOOD'STONE, n. [blood and stone.]

  1. A stone, imagined, if worn as an amulet, to be a good preventive of bleeding at the nose. [See Hematite.]
  2. In gem sculpture, a species of heliotrope dotted with spots of jasper. – Elmes.

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