sulphurysulfuryadj.
1. Consisting of, containing, or impregnated with sulphur; = sulphurous adj. 1.
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [adjective] > containing, consisting of, or impregnated with
sulphury1580
sulphurate1660
sulphuric1815
sulphuriferous1830
1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes f. 154, The yron hath more force, bycause it is not cleane of the sulpherie partes.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. iii. 44 That Bathonian Spring, Which from the Sulphury Mines her med'cinall force doth bring.
1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor (1686) i. 34 The gross Sulphury oars.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. ii. 429 Planetary Warmth..may stir the Nitrous Spirit, as well as enflame the Sulfury Particle.
1799 Mushet in Philos. Mag. 4 381 (note) , When super~carbonated crude iron is run from the furnace, it is frequently covered with a scurf, which..is found to be a coating of plumbago..: this substance is universally denominated sulphur and..we say that the iron is sulphury.
1861 A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes x. 289 The Statice clustered along the banks of a sulphury pool.
1892 Daily News 23 Sept. 3/2 Sulphury iron.
2.
a. = sulphureous adj. 2a.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > other spec.
sulphureousa1552
sulphured1605
sulphurous1606
sulphury1614
mephitic1623
nidorulent1634
empyreumatic1651
nidorous1651
Stymphalian1653
hircine1656
nitrosulphureous1656
empyreumatical1661
nitro-sulphurious1693
mephitical1704
nidorose1707
nitro-sulphurous1717
empyreumatized1829
onionized1830
Stymphalid1831
hircinous1866
the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > containing sulphur
sulphury1614
sulphurousa1616
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective] > of the nature of or resembling flame > of bluish colour
bluea1450
sulphury1614
sulphureous1821
sulphurous1837
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vii. 267 The sulfrie aire rusts murdring steele.
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. ii. 112 The Isle of Fogo that casteth forth sulphury flames.
1697 Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 312 Dido shall come, in a black Sulph'ry flame.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 51 Sulphury stench and boiling drench.
1823 W. M. Praed Troubadour ii. 553 What a villanous, odious, sulphury smell!
b. = sulphurous adj. 2b.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [adjective]
sulphury?1611
slam-bang1823
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adjective]
sulphury?1611
sulphurousa1616
fulmineous1624
fulminous1635
sulphureous1751
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 225 A fierie Meteor, with which, Ioues sulphrie hand Opes heauen.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xii. xxxiii. 206 Had Sicilie Her Etna lost, this sulphurie Region Would shew it her in multiplicitie.
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 50 High mountains..Have..shops for sulphr'y thunder.
1812 Byron Childe Harold i. xxxviii, Death rides upon the sulphury Siroc.
1854 B. Taylor Lands of Saracen 77 A hot, sulphury haze.
c. Pertaining to gunpowder.
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1823 Byron Island iii. i, The fight was o'er,..and sulphury vapours upward driven Had left the earth, and but polluted heaven.
1881 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. 274 Iron hailing of pitiless death from the sulphury smoke.
3.
a. = sulphurous adj. 3a.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > relating to sulphur or fire of hell
sulphurious1560
sulphur1594
sulphureala1604
sulphurous1604
sulphurated1609
sulphury1630
sulphureous1644
1630 J. Taylor Jacke-a-Lent in Wks. i. 115/1 The sulphory Necromanticke Cookes.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche viii. cxciii. 130 His [sc. Lucifer's] sulphury face.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xiv. xlii. 254 Mighty Terror stopp'd the sulphury road Of their foule Throats [sc. of the peers of hell].
1751 W. Warburton Pope's Donne Sat. iv. 184 (note) , They both call out as if they were half stifled by the sulphury air of the place.]
b. = sulphurous adj. 3b.
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the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective]
reighOE
grima1000
vehementa1492
vehement1548
teeth-grinding1642
sulphury1657
tearing1692
Gothic1695
teeth-gnashinga1711
storming1905
1657 Lusts Dominion ii. v. sig. C10v, Sulphury wrath Having..entred into Royall brests: Mark how it burns.
4. = sulphureous adj. 4.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow
gull13..
flaxen?1523
palew1547
straw-coloured1585
branlie1589
straw colour1589
flaxy1634
festucine1646
sulphureous1656
flaxenish1661
butter colour1665
strawy1668
straw-yellow1794
bombycinous1796
sulphur-coloured1811
sherry-yellow1813
sulphur-yellow1816
bombasic1825
straw1842
wax-coloured1842
stramineous1845
maize-coloured1852
daffodil1855
daw1856
flax1873
sherry-coloured1875
mastic1890
sulpho-chromic1895
ochroid1897
wheat-coloured1898
sulphurous1899
sulphury1900
tea rose1900
straw-pale1922
1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 260/2 Sulphurinus, sulphury in tint.
1903 19th Cent. Dec. 971 The common Dutch black and sulphury grapes.
1905 E. Chandler Unveiling of Lhasa xiv. 266 The willows were mostly a sulphury yellow.
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