1. The mineral jet (JET sb.1 1).
1552. Huloet, Ieate stone, gagates.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 47. In Ingland the Jeit stane is abundant.
1611. J. Davies (Heref.), Commend. Poem, 5, in Coryat’s Crudities.
| For, he hard Head (and hard, sith like a Whetstone. | |
| It giues wits edge, and drawes them too like Ietstone. |
1748. trans. V. Renatus’ Distemp. Horses, 42. Of Jeat-stone, male and female, three ounces each.
2. A piece of black marble or other black stone.
1598. Yong, Diana, 103. In the middes of the garden stoode a Ieat-stone vpon fower brazen pillers: and in the mids of it a tombe framed out of Iaspar.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 546. In the morning … he is at his Beads,… in a private faire roome, upon a faire Jet-stone.
