单词 | orpiment |
释义 | orpimentn. 1. More fully yellow orpiment. Arsenic trisulphide, As2S3, a bright yellow mineral of the monoclinic system which occurs naturally as prismatic crystals or massive deposits and was formerly used as a dye or artist's pigment. Also called yellow arsenic and (as a pigment) king's yellow.Orpiment is the original arsenic (ancient Greek ἀρσενικόν). Cf. arsenic n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > orpiment arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 orpine1548 golden earth1555 zarnich1612 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments yelloweOE motey1353 arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 ochre1440 pink1464 massicot1472 yellow ochre1482 orpine1548 painter's gold1591 spruce1668 giallolino1728 king's yellow1738 Naples yellow1738 stil de grain1769 yellow earth1794 queen's yellow1806 chromate1819 chrome yellow1819 Oxford ochre1827 Indian yellow1831 Italian pink1835 Montpellier yellow1835 Turner1835 quercitron lake1837 jaune brillant1851 zinc chromate1851 zinc sulphide1851 brush-gold1861 zooxanthin1868 Oxford chrome1875 aureolin1879 cadmium yellow1879 Cassel yellow1882 Neapolitan yellow1891 zinc chrome1892 Mars1899 jaune jonquille1910 c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 823 The firste spirit quyk siluer called is, The seconde orpyment. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 12 (MED) Auripigmentum, orpiment, quando simpliciter de citrino intelligitur. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. bv Powdre of orpement blowen uppon an hawke. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. cj Orpmente the C. pounde x.s. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xvi. f. 115/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I We haue in england gret plenty of quick Syluer, Antimony, Sulphur, black Lead, and Orpiment red and yealow. 1617 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 78 Orpament. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 90 Arsenick red and yellow, that is, Orpement and Sandarach may perhaps doe something. View more context for this quotation 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 331 Orpment, Pinck, Yellow Oaker, for Yellow. 1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 393 The other colours I tried were orpiment, gamboge,..and a few others. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xvi. 140 A thin plate of native yellow orpiment absorbs the violet and refrangible blue rays very powerfully. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 341 There is a green bice prepared by mixing some yellow orpiment with smalt. 1969 R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford Art of Codex Amiatinus 3 The third leaf, a purple-stained folio with text written in yellow orpiment (not gold), carried on its recto and verso respectively a prologue and a table of contents. 1998 D. Hare Judas Kiss ii. 74 Wilde: The sun was not like topaz. No. Nor was it the colour of saffron. I can only say to you..that the sun was like orpiment. 2. red orpiment n. the mineral realgar; arsenic monosulphide, AsS. Cf. arsenic n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > arsenic > [noun] > red sulphuret of red orpiment1748 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 193 Auripigmentum, Orpement, it is a veyne of þe erþe and þer is þerof boþe red and citryne. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 391 Þe place be afterwarde plastrede wiþ rede orpyment. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xvi. f. 115/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I We haue in england gret plenty of quick Syluer, Antimony, Sulphur, black Lead, and Orpiment red and yealow. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxv. v. 218 Incorporat with the skales of brasse and red orpiment, it taketh away warts. 1701 J. Smith Art of Painting in Oyl (ed. 3) 90 For an Orange Colour, mix Red Orpiment and a little Vermillion. 1735 Dict. Polygraph. II. H h 4 Umber is shadowed with umber burnt... Masticote is shadowed with red orpiment. 1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 405 Red Orpiment has been a name usually given by the more judicious to Sandarach,..and by the vulgar to red Arsenic. 1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 432 It [sc. light red silver ore] is an important Ore of Silver. Red Orpiment, which it sometimes resembles, differs from it in having a yellow streak. 1922 Jrnl. Physical Chem. 26 526 In one of these [sc. recipes for mordants] which seems to have been the earliest, alum, sal ammoniac, saltpetre, red orpiment, and kelp, were directed to be mixed with water. 1952 A. Waley tr. Mrs. White in Real Tripitaka iii. 209 He hastily prepared a jar of red orpiment and a jar of boiled medicine-water, and went round to Li's house. 2003 Microchem. Jrnl. 74 40/2 Inorganic reds, such as vermillion (HgS), iron oxide reds, red lead, or red orpiment, would yield notable X-ray peaks. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [adjective] > orpiment orpimental1685 1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 62 in Ess. Effects Motion Orpimental or other noxious Minerals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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