chalybeate
containing or impregnated with salts of iron, as a mineral spring or medicine.
a chalybeate water, medicine, or the like.
Origin of chalybeate
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How to use chalybeate in a sentence
Both are used as chalybeate tonics, either in the form of pills or dissolved in hot water.
The antidote was excellent; cooling, fortifying; 'quite a chalybeate,' her aunt would say, and she was thankful.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George MeredithQuickly she hurried away and found the miller seated on his favourite rustic bench near the chalybeate spring.
Sixes and Sevens | O. HenryIt was, however, observed, that chalybeate-springs were numerous close to the water's edge.
It is a tonic or chalybeate, and, as this goes to press, is being retubed.
Saratoga and How to See It | R. F. Dearborn
British Dictionary definitions for chalybeate
/ (kəˈlɪbɪɪt) /
containing or impregnated with iron salts
any drug containing or tasting of iron
Origin of chalybeate
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