stibium
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of stibium
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin stibi ( s ), stibium < Greek stíbi (variant of stímmi < Egyptian sdm )
Example Sentences
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Her eyes are coloured with stibium, and her nostrils are shaped like the wings of a swallow.
From A House of Pomegranates by Wilde, Oscar
The seventh method consists of heating together a bes of the copper and one-sixth each of iron scales and filings, salt, stibium, and glass-galls.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Stibium.—The word stibium signifies the antimony, from whence, by the philosophical fire, is taken an alkali which we empty in our grand work.
From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by Morgan, William
Oh, the cursed devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice candied o'er, despair with gall and stibium; Yet we carouse it off.
From The White Devil by Webster, John
Some of the alabasti would contain kohl or stibium, some salves and ointments, others perhaps perfumed washes for the complexion.
From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George
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