Crossword clues for brimstone
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brimstone \Brim"stone\, n. [OE. brimston, bremston, bernston, brenston; cf. Icel. brennistein. See Burn, v. t., and Stone.] Sulphur; See Sulphur.
Brimstone \Brim"stone\, a. Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches.
From his brimstone bed at break of day
A-walking the devil has gone.
--Coleridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English brynstan, from brin- stem of brinnen "to burn" (see burn (v.)) + stan (see stone (n.)). In Middle English the first element also recorded as brem-, brom-, brum-, bren-, brin-, bron-, brun-, bern-, born-, burn-, burned-, and burnt-. Formerly "the mineral sulfur," now restricted to biblical usage.\n\nThe Lord reynede vpon Sodom and Gomor brenstoon and fier.
[Wycliff's rendition (1382) of Gen. xix:24]
\nThe Old Norse cognate compound brennusteinn meant "amber," as does German Bernstein.Wiktionary
n. 1 sulphur. 2 The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
WordNet
n. an old name for sulfur [syn: native sulfur, native sulphur]
Wikipedia
Brimstone is an alternative name for sulfur.
It may also refer to:
- Fire and brimstone, an expression of signs of God's wrath in the Bible, or a style of Christian preaching that uses vivid descriptions of judgment and eternal damnation to encourage repentance
- Brimstone (comics), a DC Comics character
- Brimstone (2016 film), an upcoming film
- Brimstone (Preston and Child novel), a 2004 novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Brimstone (Parker novel), a 2009 Western novel by Robert B. Parker
- Brimstone (Skinner novel), a novel by British author Alan Skinner
- Brimstone (Transformers), various characters in different Transformers series
- Brimstone (TV series), a supernatural TV series that originally aired on Fox Television in 1998
- Brimstone (missile), an air-to-ground weapon system
- Brimstone moth, a moth of the family Geometridae
- Gonepteryx, a genus of butterflies commonly known as the Brimstones
- Gonepteryx rhamni, a species of Gonepteryx commonly known as the Brimstone or Common Brimstone
- Brimstone, "Blood Laser Barrage", an item in the video game, The Binding of Isaac, and its remake, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Brimstone '' - Slugterra - Dark Bane Evil secondary Character
Brimstone is an air-launched ground attack missile developed by MBDA for Britain's Royal Air Force. It was originally intended for " fire-and-forget" use against mass formations of enemy armour, using a millimetric wave (mmW) active radar homing seeker to ensure accuracy even against moving targets. Experience in Afghanistan led to the addition of laser guidance in the dual-mode Brimstone missile, allowing a "spotter" to pick out specific targets when friendly forces or civilians were in the area. The tandem shaped charge warhead is much more effective against modern tanks than older similar weapons such as the AGM-65G Maverick, while the small blast area minimises collateral damage. Three Brimstones are carried on a launcher that occupies a single weapon station, allowing a single aircraft to carry many missiles.
After a protracted development programme, single-mode or "millimetric" Brimstone entered service with RAF Tornado aircraft in 2005, and the dual-mode variant in 2008. The latter has been extensively used in Afghanistan and Libya. An improved Brimstone 2 was expected to enter service in October 2012, but problems with the new warhead from TDW and the ROXEL rocket motor put back the planned date to November 2015. MBDA is working on the targeting of swarms of small boats under the name Sea Spear. The RAF intend to fit Brimstone to their Eurofighter Typhoons, and planned to integrate it with their Harriers until the latter were withdrawn from service in 2011. MBDA is studying the use of Brimstone on ships, attack helicopters, UAVs, and from surface launchers; it will be integrated on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II when the F-35B enters British service. The United States, France and India have expressed interest in buying Brimstone for their aircraft, but Saudi Arabia is the only export customer .The cost per missile has been quoted as £175,000 ($263,000) each in 2015, or 'over £100,000'.
Brimstone is a thriller novel written by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and published on August 3, 2004 by Warner Books. This is the fifth installment in the Special Agent Pendergast series and the first novel in the Diogenes trilogy that also includes Dance of Death (2005) and The Book of the Dead (2006).
Brimstone is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes.
Brimstone is a 2009 Western novel by Robert B. Parker. It is the third novel featuring Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, following the events of Appaloosa and Resolution.
Brimstone is an upcoming western thriller film conceived, written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Kit Harington and Carice van Houten. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.
Brimstone is a Fox television series, featuring a dead police detective whose mission (assigned by the Devil) is to return to Hell 113 spirits who have escaped to Earth. The series ran for only one partial season, from 1998–99.
Since cancellation, Brimstone reruns have aired on Syfy (originally the Sci Fi Channel) in the United States from the summer of 1999 onward. The reruns have no set schedule, but are usually aired in marathons during the channel's seasonal events like "Creatureland", "Inhumanland" and "the 31 Days of Halloween". Chiller also began airing reruns, on July 28, 2007. It currently airs in sporadic weekday marathons, like Syfy, and has no set airing schedule.
Brimstone is the title of the first book in the alchemy-themed Earth, Air, Fire and Water series by British author Alan Skinner. It was published in 2010. Before Brimstone, Skinner had published the first two books in The Land’s Tale series, Blue Fire and Ice and Furnaces of Forge. Like Brimstone, these are aimed at the young adult market.
Skinner claims that he decided to write Brimstone because he was "quite fed up with young adult books about wizards, witches, werewolves and vampires." It was time for a book that dealt with the other end of the alphabet.’ The book shies away from turning alchemy into a fantasy, magic-like endeavour. Instead, it portrays alchemy as a fore-runner of modern science, though acknowledging some of the outdated beliefs and fraudulent practitioners of early alchemists. Essentially, the book is a traditional adventure story with themes of personal self-realisation, courage, loyalty and friendship.
Brimstone is a 1949 American Trucolor Western film directed by Joseph Kane and written by Thames Williamson. The film stars Rod Cameron, Lorna Gray, Walter Brennan, Forrest Tucker, Jack Holt and Jim Davis. The film was released on August 15, 1949, by Republic Pictures.
Usage examples of "brimstone".
Feeling like a Brimstone addict, I crouched in the gutter and pulled out my vial of brew.
Nailing him as a distributor of Brimstone would be enough to pay off my contract.
I pitched my voice high, smiling brainlessly, as if I had been planting Brimstone all night.
Another Brimstone take will put me in the clear and distract them at the same time.
As Jenks babbled like a Brimstone addict needing his fix, I explored the smelly cupboard to find that the pipe from the sink went under the house through a wood floor.
FIB busy with Brimstone while the real moneymaker goes out on the other side of the city.
In Europe, the brimstone is a harbinger of spring, often emerging from its winter hibernation under dead leaves to revel in the countryside while there is still snow upon the ground.
And we are well supplied with meat and brimstone and quicksilver for the dragons.
The brimstone and quicksilver dragons ate along with their meat made their wastes not just odorous but corrosive.
Because of the brimstone and quicksilver that had helped fuel it, dragon-fire clung and clung.
Along with the brimstone reek of their fodder and droppings, he also inhaled the strong reptilian musk that was their own distinctive scent.
He waited for Swemmel to sack him, to order him sent to dig coal or salt or brimstone, to order him killed on the spot.
One of them took a chunk of meat, rolled it in a bucket full of ground cinnabar and brimstone, and tossed it to the dragon.
Our ancestors were told it was a burning lake of fire, of sulfur and brimstone, in which one was eternally submerged.
Hen said as he picked up his saddle and headed toward where Brimstone stood munching marsh hay.