Moonstone
. A mineral so called on account of the play of light which it exhibits. Wilkie Collins has a novel called The Moonstone.
“The moonstone contains bluish-white spots, which, when held to the light, present a … . silvery play of colour not unlike that of the moon.”—Ure: Chemical Dictionary.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.