- a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- a playing marble made of this substance, or of glass in imitation of it.
- a 5½-point type of a size between pearl and nonpareil.
- an impure microcrystalline form of quartz consisting of a variegated, usually banded chalcedony, used as a gemstone and in making pestles and mortars, burnishers, and polishers. Formula: SiO 2
- a playing marble of this quartz or resembling it
- (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 5 1/2 point
- on the way
- James (Evershed). 1877–1947, British theatre critic; drama critic for The Sunday Times (1923–47) and author of a nine-volume diary Ego (1935–49)
