ˈeagle-ˈstone
[See aetites, and quot. 1601.]
= aetites.
| c 1440 Bone Flor. 390 An egyll and a charbokull stone. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 590 The ægle-stones called Aëtites..it is said that..without them the ægles cannot hatch. 1686 Lond. Gaz. No. 2126/4 An Eagle Stone, tied up in a piece of black Ribon..lost the 29th Instant. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. ætites, The finest and most valued of all the eagle-stones, are accidental states of one or other of our common pebbles. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. II. 16 Norway produces crystals..thunder stones, and eagle-stones. 1879 Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v. Aetites, The eagle-stone; a stone, hollow and containing another substance within it; the..shell of clay-iron stone; the..nucleus, of variable composition. |