- Blue stone: lapis ... - Gem, lapis ... - Stone, lapis ... - A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small
rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and
soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or
veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work.
Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.
- A species of limestone used among the Greeks for
making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few
weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis
Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a
city of Lycia. - A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin. - A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a
grave as a memorial.