Word Meanings - HYDRARGYRUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Quicksilver; mercury.
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- QUICKSILVER
The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water. - QUICKSILVERING
The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass. - QUICKSILVERED
Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil. - MERCURY
A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.