单词 | stibium |
释义 | stibiumn. ‘Black antimony’, i.e. trisulphide of antimony calcined and powdered, used as a cosmetic for blackening the eyelids and eyebrows. †Formerly used also for metallic antimony or any of its salts, esp. as a poison or an emetic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > emetic > mineral-based stibiuma1398 stibie1548 algaroth1662 tartar-emetic1704 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > for the eyes > colour for lids and brows stibiuma1398 stibie1548 calliblephary1601 stibic stone1609 alcohol1615 eyebrow pencil1779 kohl1799 surma1819 darkener1847 mascara1886 eye-black1912 eye shadow1922 eyeshade1923 shadow1936 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xxxv. 1295 Stibium is a feyned colour ymade of cerusa and of oþer þinges medled. Þerwiþ wymmen peynted here face. c1596 P. Henslowe Diary (1961) 38 Take stebivm..& beate yt in powder verey fine. 1612 J. Webster White Divel ii. i. 281 I will compound a medicine out of their two heads, stronger then garlick, deadlier then stibium. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 22) 1094 Sinne, like Stibium, will tarry with no body: up it must, either here by an humble confession, or hereafter by a wretched confusion. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. vi. 67 Their belly-timbers, which I suppose would be but stibium to weake stomacks as they cooke it, though never so good of it selfe. 1660 J. Harding tr. B. Valentine Triumphant Chariot Antimony 81 The Antimony thus melted in the Crucible, Take a plain and broad dish..; poure in the stibium by litle and litle. 1706 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 6) v. 82 Of temper'd Stibium the bright Shield was cast. 1842 A. A. Bonar & R. M. McCheyne Narr. Mission to Jews (1843) ii. 59 Their eyes painted with stibium. 1874 S. Birch 1st & 2nd Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 27 Vase for holding stibium,..called by the Arabs kohl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1398 |
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