Carbuncle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CARBUNCLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a fiery-red precious stone, aka almandine
• a severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria.
• a bright red gem, in particular a garnet cut en cabochon.
• inflamed boil
• A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.
• A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.
• A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.
• deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets
• an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a obsolete; any of several red precious stones; the garnet cut cabochon

Words related to CARBUNCLE

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Words that contain CARBUNCLE

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How to use CARBUNCLE in a sentence

• A golden chain hung about his neck, and at his collar was a great carbuncle set in red gold.
• I was attracted by a very handsome red stone, a ruby or carbuncle or something of the sort, to notice his left hand, the other day.
• The common employment of the designation carbuncle for a precious stone and also for a boil was usual from ancient times.
• It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red.
• You remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation.
• And upon opening some of the swellings, they found a strange sort of carbuncle that had grown inside them.
• In the Sketches from Memory Hawthorne gives an intimation of the tale which he might write and did afterward write of The Great Carbuncle.
• Methinks, now, it were not amiss that each of us declare what he proposes to do with the Great Carbuncle, provided he have the good hap to clutch it.
• The stars, those dial-points of heaven, now warned the adventurers to close their eyes on the blazing logs, and open them, in dreams, to the glow of the Great Carbuncle.
• With resolute bravado, however, he snatched them from his nose, and fixed a bold stare full upon the ruddy blaze of the Great Carbuncle.
• Thenceforth there was, in very truth, no light of the Great Carbuncle, nor any other light on earth, nor light of heaven itself, for the poor Cynic.
• As the funeral torches gleamed within that dark receptacle, there was no need of the Great Carbuncle to show the vanity of earthly pomp.
• Matthew and his bride spent many peaceful years, and were fond of telling the legend of the Great Carbuncle.
• He might as well have desired me to demonstrate that the sun is not a carbuncle.
• The first approach of a carbuncle on the nose, about the age of thirty, has stopped many a man from drinking.
• Also Radish roots sliced when fresh, and applied to a carbuncle will promote its healing.
• There is a curious conical mound in the town, called the Moat-hill, which looks like a great, green carbuncle.
• Do not seek to leave the cave, and guard your star, O spider! You have in your web the carbuncle, Venus.
• Amidst the sordid crowd she shone out grandly, as with the radiance of a carbuncle.
• Tennent, on this subject, quotes from a Chinese work a statement that early in the 14th century the Emperor sent an officer to Ceylon to purchase a carbuncle of unusual lustre.
• At the summit of the main tower was an immense carbuncle, which served, like a star, to guide the Templars thither at night.

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