Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHA-TOY'ANT
CHA-TOY'ANT, n.
A hard stone, a little transparent, which being cut smooth presents on its surface and in the interior, an undulating or wavy light. It is of a yellowish gray color or verging to an olive green. It rarely exceeds the size of a filbert. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.
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