Apply to the carbuncle, and it will soon ripen and break.

A facetted carbuncle accompanied by ten little twinkling emeralds; &c. &c.

The second row contained a carbuncle, a jasper, and a sapphire.

Mrs. Gore sent a huge carbuncle which Arabella strongly suspected to be glass.

They have among them the legend of the carbuncle, so famous in oriental mythos.