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.

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noun

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

chalybeate British  

/ kəˈlɪbɪɪt /

adjective

1. containing or impregnated with iron salts

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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; chalybite

Example Sentences

When the water is a carbonated chalybeate, it should be drunk the moment it is drawn from the spring; but the same precaution is not necessary with a water containing sulphate of iron.

From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by Holdsworth, J. H.

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

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

Even the advantage of these was neutralized by the chalybeate, which acted with disconcerting abruptness upon a healthy body unused to medicinal spurs.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

Waters thus named owe their properties to iron in combination generally with carbonic acid; and as the latter is usually in excess, they are often acidulous as well as chalybeate.

From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by Holdsworth, J. H.

A good road runs southward down the pass, passing after a few miles some large chalybeate and sulphur springs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various