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mercuries

  • plural
    of mercury.
    mercury
    noun
    a heavy, silver-white, highly toxic metallic element, the only one that is liquid at room temperature; quicksilver: used in barometers, thermometers, pesticides, pharmaceutical preparations, reflecting surfaces of mirrors, and dental fillings, in certain switches, lamps, and other electric apparatus, and as a laboratory catalyst. Hg; 200.59; 80; 13.546 at 20°C; freezing point: −38.9°C; boiling point: 357°C.

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In the bottom, is a large old manor house belonging to Colonel Williams, beautified “above, below, around,” with leaded mercuries, shepherdesses, and sportsmen. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber

There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.

From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Others again discuss the news, and are deep in the store of "mercuries" here to be found.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Then there are no longer two mercuries but only one; and the sulphur, our completed subject, has become more or less a unity.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe