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vitriol
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry [syn: oil of vitriol , sulfuric acid , sulphuric acid ] abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "sulphate of iron," from Old French vitriol (13c.), from Medieval Latin vitriolum "vitriol," noun use of neuter of vitriolus , variant of Late Latin vitreolus "of glass," from Latin vitreus "of glass, glassy," from vitrum "glass" (see vitreous ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) sulphuric acid and various metal sulphates 2 (context by extension English) bitterly abusive language vb. 1 (cx transitive English) To subject to bitter verbal abuse. 2 (cx transitive metallurgy English) To dip in dilute sulphuric ...
Usage examples of vitriol.
An overdressed woman is not so pleasing as she might be, but at any rate she is better than the oil of vitriol squirter, whose profession it is to teach young ladies to avoid vanity by spoiling their showy silks and satins.
They react with the green vitriol, which in Grantville is called iron sulfate, to form the dark iron tannate and gallate.
I have also a quantity of minerals, plenty of vitriol, cinnabar, antimony, and one hundred quintals of mercury.
Our furnace eke of calcination, And of waters albification, Unslaked lime, chalk, and *glair of an ey,* *egg-white Powders diverse, ashes, dung, piss, and clay, Seared pokettes, saltpetre, and vitriol.
Naturally, when baronets are threatening to pour vitriol down her neck, a refined and sensitive young girl cannot pick her words.
A drop of vitriol seeped through a hole that it had eaten in the hinge of the siphon, and splashed on Bellcrank's shoe.
The vitriol ate the buckle strap in two, and with a mighty kick, Bellcrank flung the shoe away.
There are two mortars with their pestles just below the colcothar of vitriol.
Emanations of heiratic pride and vitriol flowed from him as if he were defying the entire Stonedown.
Our lamps that burned by day and burned by night To bring about our end, if but we might, Our furnace, too, white-hot for calcination, And waters all prepared for albication, Unslaked lime, chalk, and white of egg, I say, Powders diverse, and ashes, dung, piss, clay, Little waxed bags, saltpetre, vitriol.
The first alchemistic principle is VITRIOL: Visita Interiora Terrae, Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapi-dem.
He had dabbled in alchemistic experiments himself, making distillations, aqua regia, aqua fortris, and iron vitriol.
I used eggshells, sulfur, vitriol, arsenic, sal ammoniac, quartz, alkalis, oxides of rock, saltpeter, soda, salt of tartar, and potash alum.
All it took was cotton thread soaked in vitriol and aqua fortis&mdash.
For long, green vitriol was confused with blue vitriol, which generally occurs as an impurity in crude green vitriol.