vitrum
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of vitrum
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1650–60
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The vitrum ceratum antimonii proved often too rough a Medicine, and therefore we laid it almost entirely aside.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald
It is supposed that woad was "vitrum" the dye with which Caesar said almost all the Britons stained their bodies.
From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer by Mairet, Ethel M.
O. N. vitring, revelation, from vb. vitra, to reveal.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
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