0 someone whose job is cutting and polishing stones, especially precious stones --
1 relating to the work of cutting and polishing stones, especially precious stones: --
Operation 7, lapidary tools (perforators and blanks) and figurine molds.
A positive finding would suppor t the organization of lapidary production within a household context.
They are not lapidary in their clarity; indeed, they could create a source of great argument and confusion.
He also recognises that other minerals have characteristic crystal shapes, but in one example, confuses the crystal habit with the work of lapidaries.
Thus, lapidaries, engravers, and copyists made the most of the available writing space.
Metalsmiths, beaders, carvers, and lapidaries combine these materials to create jewelry.
Although each chapter has a lapidary brilliance of its own, the overall impression remains one of superbly constructed individual arguments rather than of a single, cohesive work.
What he valued in the inscription was its capacity to bridge the gap between fixity and immediacy, lapidary permanence and impassioned effusion.