a. [f. JEWEL sb. or v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Set or adorned with jewels; spec. of a watch (JEWEL v. 1 b); also of pottery (JEWELLING 3).

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a. 1601.  ? Marston, Pasquil & Kath., II. 129. More soft and cleere Then is the jewell’d tip of Venus eare.

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1742.  Collins, Ecl., iii. 65. On Persia’s jewell’d throne.

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1804.  Nicholson’s Jrnl., VII. 204. So far from jewelled holes being advantageous in Clockwork, they are absolutely injurious.

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1820.  Scott, Abbot, xiii. The gemmed ring and jewelled mitre had become secular spoils.

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1899.  T. M. Ellis, Three Cat’s-Eye Rings, ii. 43. The … corridors were glittering with jewelled women.

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  2.  fig. Glistening like or as with jewels.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., III. 312. Jewell’d sands Took silently their foot-prints.

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1884.  B’ham Weekly Post, 20 Sept., 1/4. I do not like the coloured, almost jewelled, effect of the oxides of different metals used in the construction of this screen.

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1898.  C. E. Raimond, in Pall Mall Mag., May, 22. The blue of her eyes was scintillant and jewelled.

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