carbuncle

«carbuncle» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: garnet; red gem — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

garnet; red gem

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A dark red precious stone. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is rare and usually means a painful boil. Here it means a red jewel.

examples

• and the second row a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald; (Torah EXO.28.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• As to the cargo, let it be diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and carbuncles.” (The Blue Fairy Book) tree →
• And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald. (Torah EXO.39.11, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

carbuncle

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 12 (Torah 2, tales 10, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.4 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• and the second row a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald;
• And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald.
• And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «carbuncle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.