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The opal. So called by the ancients from a notion that it was a thunder-stone. (Latin, ceraunium; Greek, kerauʹnios.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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