| 单词 | quicksilver mine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquicksilver mine a. General attributive, with sense ‘of or relating to quicksilver, consisting of or containing quicksilver’, as quicksilver bath, quicksilver earth, quicksilver field, quicksilver globe, quicksilver mine, quicksilver ore, quicksilver tank, etc. Π 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Quyckesyluer earth, antrax. 1685 London Gaz. No. 1996/1 The Quick-Silver Ships may be expected this month at Cadiz. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 384 Cinnabar or quicksilver ore. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 142 Some persons whose skin is no sooner touched with quicksilver ointment than it is felt in the salivary glands. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 397/1 A mineral found in the quicksilver mines of Idria. 1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. iii. 61 In the centre of the ceiling hung a quicksilver globe, a common ornament in those days. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 19 A very important quicksilver-field is about to be opened in the far north. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 260 A..clever arrangement of quicksilver-tanks. 1983 T. Pratchett Colour of Magic 47 You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear.., and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes..that you can't remember what happens next. < as lemmas |
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