Obs. [ad. med.L. carneol-us cornelian; dim. of L. carneus fleshy, with the sense of ‘slightly flesh-colored’; but perh. an alteration of the forms in corn- under the influence of this supposed derivation.] = CORNELIAN.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVI. xxxiii. (1495), 563. Carneolus is a red stoon and dymme … yf it is hanged aboute a mannys necke … in stryfes it alayth wrathes.
1708. Kersey, Carneol, a precious Stone.
1731. In Bailey, vol. II.
