Definition of Jacinths

1. Noun. (plural of jacinth) ¹

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Definition of Jacinths

1. jacinth [n] - See also: jacinth

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacinths

jacamars
jacana
jacanas
jacaranda
jacarandas
jacare
jacares
jacchus
jacchuses
jacconet
jacconets
jacent
jacinth
jacinthe
jacinthes
jacinths (current term)
jack-a-dandies
jack-a-dandy
jack-a-lantern
jack-a-napes
jack-ball
jack-by-the-hedge
jack-easy
jack-fruit
jack-in-the-box
jack-in-the-boxes
jack-in-the-pulpit
jack-knife
jack-knifed

Literary usage of Jacinths

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"It had the face of a man, bat the cheeks of а horse; its eyes were like jacinths, but brilliant as the stars ; it had the wings of an eagle, spoke with the ..."

2. An Essay Towards a System of Mineralogy by Axel Frederic Cronstedt (1788)
"... found of a colour not inferior to the true jacinths. The author had not, ... a jacinth and a garnet at all/ but buy and fell the garnets for jacinths, ..."

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