gemlike








noun

  1. a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry.
  2. something likened to or prized as such a stone because of its beauty or worth: His painting was the gem of the collection.
  3. a person held in great esteem or affection.
  4. muffin(def 1).
  5. British Printing. a 4-point type of a size between brilliant and diamond.

verb (used with object), gemmed, gemĀ·ming.

  1. to adorn with or as with gems; begem.

adjective

  1. Jewelry. noting perfection or very high quality: gem color; a gem ruby.

noun

  1. a precious or semiprecious stone used in jewellery as a decoration; jewel
  2. a person or thing held to be a perfect example; treasure
  3. a size of printer’s type, approximately equal to 4 point
  4. NZ a type of small sweet cake

verb gems, gemming or gemmed

  1. (tr) to set or ornament with gems
n.

Old English gimm “precious stone, gem, jewel,” also “eye,” from Latin gemma “precious stone, jewel,” originally “bud,” perhaps from the root *gen- “to produce,” or from PIE *gembh- “tooth, nail.” Of persons, from late 13c. Forms in -i-, -y- were lost early 14c., and the modern form of the word probably representing a Middle English borrowing from Old French gemme (12c.). As a verb, from c.1600, “to adorn with gems;” mid-12c. as “to bud.”

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