† zinghon.
Obsolete. rare.
Zinc.Apparently only used in the correspondence cited in the quots.
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1743 H. Mann Let. 12 Mar. in H. Walpole Corr. (1954) XVIII. 184 He [sc. Carlo Ginori, Italian porcelain manufacturer] talks to me much about cobalt and zingho, two minerals which he says are found in England, and which would be vastly useful to him in composing the colours for the painting his China.
1743 H. Walpole Let. 10 June in Corr. (1954) XVIII. 250 He promised me too to go to Lord Islay to know what cobolt and zingho are.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021).
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