单词 | mineral spring |
释义 | > as lemmasmineral spring 1. Of water, a spring, etc.: impregnated with minerals; containing a high proportion of mineral salts; esp. in mineral spring, mineral water n. Formerly (also): (of the colour of river water) †indicative of such a content (obsolete). In recent use also (with reference to wine): having a taste suggestive of such a content. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > [adjective] > mineral impregnation mineral?a1425 minerous1612 mineraline1674 mineralized1785 mineralizing1890 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 33 After Arnolde vse of minerale waters [L. aquarum mineralium], most of tartarie sapour, noȝt only availeþ for to attenue or make þyn inward bocia bot also vtward. 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 9, in 2nd Pt. Herball Thys minorall water is cleare..and springeth out of sande. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 57 Two Riuers, Acheron and Cocytus; who for their minerall colours, and bitter tasts, were surnamed the Riuers of Hell. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 359 A kind of ocre..falls to the bottom of the chanels of all..mineral springs, whether sowes or others. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 60 We travelled..to the Spaw... The Medicinal Waters..seemed to me more brisk and sprightly, and better sated with Mineral Juices than any I have tasted in England. 1783 S. Tenney Let. 1 Sept. in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. (1793) 2 43 I mentioned some mineral springs in the vicinity of this place. 1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 187 About two leagues to the east of this mass, I discovered a brackish mineral spring. 1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. 139 Invalids, many of whom come..for the..mineral baths. 1843 W. W. Mather et al. Geol. N.Y. iv. 308 In this district the only mineral springs of interest are the salines, the sulphur springs, [etc.]. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Apr. 1/4 Craig..was probably fatally shot by a burglar late tonight in his room at a mineral springs resort. 1987 R. Carver Elephant (1988) 114 Russians had been going there for years to soak in the hot mineral baths. < as lemmas |
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