stibium
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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 Oscar Wilde
Later, with the application of that term to the metal, the sulphide was termed "grey antimony," and we have either used stibium for lack of better alternative, or adopted "grey antimony."
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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 William Morgan
What doest thou now That thou deck'st thee in deckings of gold And clothest in scarlet,61 And with stibium widenest thine eyes?
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith
The gold which remains is re-heated with stibium, and when this is exhaled the gold is heated for the third time in a cupel with a fourth part of lead, and then quenched.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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