chalybeate

American  

[kuh-lib-ee-it, -eyt] / kəˈlɪb i ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. containing or impregnated with salts of iron, as a mineral spring or medicine.

---

noun

1. a chalybeate water, medicine, or the like.

chalybeate British  

/ kəˈlɪbɪɪt /

adjective

1. containing or impregnated with iron salts

---

noun

1. any drug containing or tasting of iron

Etymology

Origin of chalybeate

1625–35; < New Latin chalybēātus, Latin chalybē ( ïus ) of steel (< Greek chalybēís, equivalent to chalybē-, variant stem of chályps iron + -is adj. suffix) + -ātus -ate ¹; see chalybite

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

chalybeate

The town, which has considerable agricultural trade, possesses a chalybeate spring, but this is little used.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

A chalybeate spring bursts from the cliff on the northern side; and near the middle of the port an artesian well throws up a constant stream, varying with the rise and fall of the tide.

From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

There are several mineral springs in the county, some of them chalybeate, others sulphurous.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

Two speculative chap-book pedlars sold the first twenty to as many drinkers of chalybeate hastening home to breakfast.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

A park in the south of the city contains a spa, a chalybeate spring having been discovered in 1814.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various