alabaster 音标拼音: ['æləb
, æstɚ]
n . 雪花石膏
雪花石膏
alabaster adj 1 :
of or resembling alabaster ; "
alabaster statue " [
synonym :
{
alabaster }, {
alabastrine }]
n 1 :
a compact fine -
textured ,
usually white gypsum used for carving 2 :
a hard compact kind of calcite [
synonym : {
alabaster }, {
oriental alabaster }, {
onyx marble }, {
Mexican onyx }]
3 :
a very light white Gypsum \
Gyp "
sum \ (
j [
i ^]
p "
s [
u ^]
m ),
n . [
L .
gypsum ,
Gr .
gy `
psos ;
cf .
Ar .
jibs plaster ,
mortar ,
Per .
jabs [
imac ]
n lime .] (
Min .)
A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (
calcium ).
When calcined ,
it forms plaster of Paris .
{
Selenite }
is a transparent ,
crystalline variety ;
{
alabaster },
a fine ,
white ,
massive variety .
[
1913 Webster ]
Alabaster \
Al "
a *
bas "
ter \,
n . [
L .
alabaster ,
Gr . '
ala `
bastros ,
said to be derived fr .
Alabastron ,
the name of a town in Egypt ,
near which it was common :
cf .
OF .
alabastre ,
F .
alb [^
a ]
tre .]
1 . (
Min .)
(
a )
A compact variety or sulphate of lime ,
or gypsum ,
of fine texture ,
and usually white and translucent ,
but sometimes yellow ,
red ,
or gray .
It is carved into vases ,
mantel ornaments ,
etc .
(
b )
A hard ,
compact variety of carbonate of lime ,
somewhat translucent ,
or of banded shades of color ;
stalagmite .
The name is used in this sense by Pliny .
It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments ,
etc .;
--
so called from the stone of which it was originally made . --
Fosbroke .
[
1913 Webster ]
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "
alabaster ":
amphibole ,
antimony ,
apatite ,
aplite ,
arsenic ,
asbestos ,
asphalt ,
azurite ,
bauxite ,
billiard table ,
bitumen ,
boron ,
bowling alley ,
bowling green ,
brimstone ,
bromine ,
brucite ,
calcite ,
carbon ,
celestite ,
chalcedony ,
chalk ,
chlorite ,
chromite ,
clay ,
coal ,
coke ,
corundum ,
cryolite ,
diatomite ,
driven snow ,
emery ,
epidote ,
epsomite ,
feldspar ,
flat ,
fleece ,
flour ,
foam ,
garnet ,
glass ,
glauconite ,
graphite ,
gypsum ,
hatchettine ,
holosiderite ,
ice ,
iron pyrites ,
ivory ,
jet ,
kyanite ,
level ,
lignite ,
lily ,
lime ,
maggot ,
magnesite ,
mahogany ,
malachite ,
maltha ,
marble ,
marcasite ,
marl ,
meerschaum ,
mica ,
milk ,
mineral coal ,
mineral oil ,
mineral salt ,
mineral tallow ,
mineral tar ,
mineral wax ,
molybdenite ,
monazite ,
obsidian ,
olivine ,
ozokerite ,
paper ,
pearl ,
peat ,
perlite ,
phosphate rock ,
phosphorus ,
plane ,
pumice ,
pyrite ,
pyrites ,
pyroxene ,
quartz ,
realgar ,
red clay ,
rhodonite ,
rock crystal ,
rocks ,
salt ,
satin ,
selenite ,
selenium ,
sheet ,
siderite ,
silica ,
silicate ,
silicon ,
silk ,
silver ,
slide ,
smooth ,
snow ,
spar ,
spinel ,
spodumene ,
sulfur ,
swan ,
talc ,
talcum ,
tellurium ,
tennis court ,
velvet ,
wollastonite ,
wulfenite ,
zeolite Alabaster occurs only in the New Testament in connection with the box of "
ointment of spikenard very precious ,"
with the contents of which a woman anointed the head of Jesus as he sat at supper in the house of Simon the leper (
Matt .
26 :
7 ;
Mark 14 :
3 ;
Luke 7 :
37 ).
These boxes were made from a stone found near Alabastron in Egypt ,
and from this circumstance the Greeks gave them the name of the city where they were made .
The name was then given to the stone of which they were made ;
and finally to all perfume vessels ,
of whatever material they were formed .
The woman "
broke "
the vessel ;
i .
e .,
she broke off ,
as was usually done ,
the long and narrow neck so as to reach the contents .
This stone resembles marble ,
but is softer in its texture ,
and hence very easily wrought into boxes .
Mark says (
14 :
5 )
that this box of ointment was worth more than 300 pence ,
i .
e .,
denarii ,
each of the value of sevenpence halfpenny of our money ,
and therefore worth about 10 pounds .
But if we take the denarius as the day '
s wage of a labourer (
Matt .
20 :
2 ),
say two shillings of our money ,
then the whole would be worth about 30 pounds ,
so costly was Mary '
s offering .
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