| 单词 | canker-water |
| 释义 | > as lemmascanker-water canker-water n. †(a) = sense 6 (obsolete); (b) water containing significant quantities of metal oxides, esp. those of iron, in the form of colloidal suspensions or precipitates (cf. sense 2). (now rare). ΚΠ 1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa iii. iii. iv. 119 There is also another water made of Lime which the Moderns Phagedenick, or the Canker-water, which is nothing but a mixture of three pints of the first water with three pints of good Spirit of wine, and half an ounce of good sublimate corrosive. 1880 J. S. Jeans Steel xxxiv. 743 Feed water that gives an acid reaction when tested by litmus paper, such as the ‘canker’ water that sometimes finds its way into boilers. 1906 O. Onions Back o' Moon 29 For iron, Holdsworth Dyke is red as a haw with canker-water any day you care to go and look. < as lemmas |
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