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minium Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmɪnɪəm|
[a. L. minium native cinnabar; also, red lead.]
1. = vermilion. Also attrib.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xxvi. (1495) 878 Minium is a red colour and the Grekis founde the matere therof in Ephesym. In Spayne is more suche pigment than in other londes. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xi. 238 The Antients made great accompt of this Minium or vermillion, holding it for a sacred colour. 1866H. Shaw Art Illum. 2 The use of minium, or vermilion, in marking..particular words of manuscripts, is of very high antiquity.
2. = red lead. Sometimes red minium. Also, † the colour of red lead.
1650J. F. Chym. Dict., Minium is the Mercury or rather Crocus of Lead precipitated. 1665Hooke Microgr. 52 White, Yellow, Orange, Minium, Scarlet, Purple. 1686W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. 133 In a little Book of Designs..I have..two or three little Things of his in Red Minium. 1732J. Peele Water-Colours 38 The Minium, or Red Lead, is as heavy and strong a Colour as most we have. 1806Smithson in Phil. Trans. XCVI. 267, I have found minium native in the earth. 1882A. S. Herschel in Nature No. 642. 362 One or two ounces of powdered minium, or red-lead.
3. transf. Red earthy matter resembling minium.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 90 The winds..doe..carry downe alongst the streame a great quantitie of that red Earth or Minium of Libanus whereby it passeth. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 35 A sort of Minium, or red Earth, washed into the River. |