单词 | cinnabar |
释义 | cinnabarn. 1. The red or crystalline form of mercuric sulphide (Hg″ S). Originally applied to native cinnabar, a rhombohedral mineral, usually of adamantine lustre, the most important ore of mercury. hepatic cinnabar: a variety of native cinnabar of a liver-brown colour. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > cinnabar sinoper1501 cinnabar1588 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 19v Great quantitie of Quicksiluer and of Cinaper. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii. sig. C3v You shall deale much, with Mineralls..Argaile, Alkaly, Cinoper. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 300 Sinaber..is a deadly medicine made halfe of quicksiluer, and halfe of brimstone by Art of fire. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. 300 Cinoper..otherwise called Vermilion. 1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 64 in Ess. Effects Motion Cinnabar, which is the Ore of Quicksilver. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Bezoar Stone Others use Cinoper, Antimony, and Quicksilver. 1838–43 T. Arnold Hist. Rome III. xlvii. 398 The cinnabar or sulphuret of quicksilver, of the famous mines of Almaden. 1863–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. III. 912 Mercuric Sulphide..exists both amorphous and crystallised; in the former state it is black; in the latter, it has a fine red colour and constitutes the well-known pigment called cinnabar or vermillion. 2. a. The same used as a pigment; vermilion n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > cinnabar or vermilion vermilion1296 cinnabara1382 miniuma1398 vermily1590 vermeil1610 minion1621 orange vermilion1864 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxii. 14 [He] maketh cedre couples, and peynteth with cynoper [a1425 L.V. with reed colour]. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. xii. 118 Write oute whate the list with cynabare. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. 13 The colors..swarvy red, synaper, or lake color. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 213 Blue, white, and black, with here and there, perhaps, a tincture of cinnabar. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 441 A cake of a fine red colour, called cinnabar, and known in commerce under the name of vermilion. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > bright red or scarlet cockea1382 coccyn1382 coctin1382 vermiliona1400 scarlet-redc1405 sinoper1412 scarletc1440 sinople?c1450 vermeletc1530 lusty gallant1587 vermeil1590 vermeil red1590 minium1601 cinnabar?1614 cochineal1632 poppy red1679 poppy colour1705 cherry-colour1720 ponceau1782 Turkey red1789 pinkc1791 coquelicot1795 poppy1796 cherry-red1802 vermilion-red1815 cardinal scarlet1828 geranium1842 dahlia1846 cardinal red1850 cerise1858 cardinal1874 scarlet-crimson1882 vermilion-scarlet1882 pillar box1894 Turkish red1900 signal red1909 fuchsia1923 ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: In vaine I haunt in Poems From th' Orient borrowing Gold, from Westerne Skies Heauenly Cinabre. 3. cinnabar of antimony n. ‘name for sulphuret of antimony, which was formed during an old process for making butter of antimony, in which mercury was used’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). ΚΠ 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 29 To work he went on Gold and Mercury..conjoyn'd them with Antimony..and firmly resolv'd, after he had made it into a Cinnabar that it should be Horizontal Gold. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Cinnabar of Antimony, a Composition of Mercury, common Sulphur, and crude Antimony sublimed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > plant resin > [noun] > gum (resin) > specific myrrheOE balsamc1000 galbanec1000 draganta1300 sandragon1334 gum arabica1350 storaxa1382 galbanum1382 asafœtidaa1398 cinnabara1398 guttaa1398 frankincensea1400 labdanuma1400 opopanaxa1400 gum-arabicc1400 sarcocolc1400 ammoniacc1420 gristle?1537 ladanum1551 dragon's blood1555 benzoin1558 styrax1558 tragacanth1558 gum tragacanth1562 amber1565 anime1577 laser1578 benjamin1580 sarcocolla1584 bdellium1585 sagapenum1597 liquidambar1598 red gum1614 gamboge1615 laudanum1616 gum ammoniac1627 male incense1647 sandarac1655 flesh-glue1659 adragant1696 dammar1698 sagapen1712 gum-dragon1718 courbaril1753 gum-senegal1760 Jew's frankincense1760 guggul1813 angico1821 gum-kino1830 butea gum1832 piney varnish1832 Kuteera gum1838 acaroid1839 bumbo1839 thus1842 gum-juniper1844 piney dammar1846 acacine1855 mochras1856 talha1857 copalm balsam1858 gum benjamin1859 wattle-gum1863 Senegal gum1867 Suakin1874 Barbary gum1875 oliva1882 ledon1885 jatoba1890 mimosa gum1890 xylan1894 gum accroides1909 karaya1916 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xxvii. 1294 Sinobium hatte cinabatim among þe Grees, and haþ þe name of draco and barro ‘þe dragoun’ and ‘þe oliphaunt’. 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 355 Sanguis Draconis (that is) dragons blud, otherwyse cauled Cinnabaris. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 532 Cinnambre, which is the mixed bloud of their fel dragons and mighty elephants. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 30 His and their blood is mingled both together, whereof the Auncients made their Cinnabaris. 5. attributive. Vermilion-coloured; deep red or scarlet. So in combinations as cinnabar-red. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > bright red or scarlet scarletc1386 puniceousa1398 vermeilc1400 corala1522 Punic?1553 orient1578 vermilion1589 wax-red1593 cherry-red1594 Punical1606 coralline?1608 scarleted1641 coccineous1654 cinnabrianc1668 poppy-coloured1677 miniaceous1688 phoeniceous1688 cherry-coloured1695 coral-red1700 cardinal1755 cherried1762 ponceau1774 punicean1786 cinnabar1807 geraniumed1819 miniatous1826 cardinal scarlet1828 vermilion-coloured1835–6 geranium-coloured1836 pink1846 cardinal red1850 lobster-red1856 phoenicean1857 magenta1877 angered1878 scarlet-vermilion1882 tomato1889 camellia-red1890 miniate1891 nasturtium-red1896 sealing-wax1912 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 250 A precipitate of a dark cinnabar colour. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 14 Dec. Of a dingy cinnabar tint. 1882 Garden 23 Dec. 553/1 Lip white, with a cinnabar botch on the disc. 6. cinnabar moth n. collectors' name of Callimorpha Jacobæa, a British moth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1382 |
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