Now rare or Obs. Also 4–7 iaspe, 5–6 Sc. iesp. [a. F. jaspe (Ph. de Thaun, 12th c.), = Sp., Pg. jaspe, ad. L. iaspis: see JASPER.] = JASPER 1.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., v. 25. Ase saphyr in selver semly on syht, Ase jaspe the gentil that lemeth with lyht.
1382. Wyclif, Isa. liv. 12. I shal sette iasp [1388 iaspis] thy pynacles.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 257/2. Iaspe, stone, iaspis.
1517. Torkington, Pilgr. (1884), 70. A box with grene Jaspys.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 569. As iesp, iasink, and margaretis mony one.
1591. Spenser, Vis. Bellay, ii. The floore of Iasp and Emeraude was dight.
1648. Gage, West. Ind., xii. (1655), 44. Wrought of Marble, Iaspe, and other black stone, with veines of red.
1900. Daily News, 19 April, 5/5. I have seen the most expensive map in the world…. The 86 departments of France are represented by as many varieties of Siberian jasp.
b. Jasp-opal = jasper-opal (see JASPER sb. 3 b).
1868. Dana, Min. (ed. 5), 199. Jasp-opal … Opal containing some yellow oxyd of iron and other impurities, and having the color of yellow jasper with the lustre of common opal.
