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stibium|ˈstɪbɪəm|
Also 6 stebium, 7 stybium.
[a. L. stibium (also stibi, stimmi = Gr. στίβι, στίµµι).]
‘Black antimony’, i.e. trisulphide of antimony calcined and powdered, used as a cosmetic for blackening the eyelids and eyebrows. † Formerly used also for metallic antimony or any of its salts, esp. as a poison or an emetic.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xxxv. (1495) 879 Stibium is a feyned colour made of Cerusa and of other thynges medlyd therwyth, wymmen paynted theyr faces therwyth. c1596Henslowe Diary (1904) i. 32 Take stebium & beate yt in powder verey fine. 1612Webster White Devil ii. i. 281, I will compound a medicine out of their two heads, stronger then garlick, deadlier then stibium. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 22. 1094 Sinne, like Stibium, will tarry with no body: up it must, either here by a humble confession, or hereafter by a wretched confusion. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. ii. vi. 67 Their belly-timbers, which I suppose would be but stibium to weake stomacks as they cooke it, though never so good of it selfe. 1660J. H. Basil Valentine's Tri. Chariot of Antimony 81 The Antimony thus melted in the Crucible, Take a plain and broad dish..; poure in the stibium by litle and litle. 1699Garth Dispens. v. 122 Of temper'd Stibium the bright Shield was cast. 1842Bonar & M'Cheyne Narr. Mission to Jews ii. (1843) 59 Their eyes painted with stibium. 1874Birch 1st & 2nd Egypt. Rooms Brit. Mus. 27 Vase for holding stibium,..called by the Arabs kohl. |