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mundic|ˈmʌndɪk|
Also 7–8 mundick, (8 mundik, mondic).
[Prob. Celtic Cornish, but the original form is uncertain; maen teg, ‘pretty stone’ has been conjectured.]
Cornish miners' name for iron pyrites, or pyrites in general. Also attrib.
1671[see maxy]. 1681Grew Musæum iii. i. ii. 272 Marcasite, or Yellow Mundick. Ibid. v. 307 A Mundick-Spar; consisting of tabulated or flat and square Crystals. 1855J. R. Leifchild Cornwall Mines 219 The yellow copper ore, at present so valued,..was in fact cast aside as ‘mundic’. 1880Baring-Gould Preachers' Pocket 239 Now and then a glittering particle of mundic cheats their hopes; but of gold..they..have none.
Hence ˈmundicky a., full of mundic.
1814W. Phillips in Trans. Geol. Soc. II. 117 A..mundicky..Load. |