Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cacholong

Cacholong , noun

[French cacholong, said to be from Cach, the name of a river in Bucharia + cholon, a Calmuck word for stone; or from a Calmuck word meaning “beautiful stone”]

(Mineralogy) An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
beautiful stone