On″y‐cha (?), n. [NL., from L. onyx, -ychis, onyx, also, a kind of mussel, Gr. �, �. See Onyx.]
1. An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus. Ex. xxx. 34.
2. The precious stone called onyx.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.