Meaning of jeat | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

Examples

“'T is loss to trust a tomb with such a guest, / Or to confine her in a marble chest, / Alas! what's marble, jeat, or porphyry,”

“There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.”

“To make a Grey Colour. Take iron ſcales, a little criſtal, and ſome ſmall quantity of jeat, grind theſe well together upon a painter's ſtone; the more jeat ye take, the ſadder the colour will be, and likewiſe the more criſtal you put to it the lighter.”

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