Lemnian
Britishadjective
noun
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Lemnian earth, ruddle, and very many minerals do this, and yet they are fatuously said to attract.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
And Antiphanes, in his Lemnian Women, says— A three-legg'd table now is laid, and on it A luscious cheesecake, O ye honour'd gods, And this year's honey in a silver dish.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
His Lemnian daughter's marriage with Antipho seems now safely provided for, but where is his Lemnian daughter and her mother?
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
If the latter view is correct, the torch race would be closely akin to the Lemnian fire-ritual which has been mentioned.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Book I. is devoted to mineral characteristics—colour, brilliance, taste, shape, hardness, etc., and to the classification of minerals; Book II., "earths"—clay, Lemnian earth, chalk, ochre, etc.;
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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