The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stibium \Stib"i*um\, n. [L. stibium, stibi, Gr. ?, ?.]
(Chem.) The technical name of antimony.
(Min.) Stibnite. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 antimony 2 kohl: stibnite used in ancient Egypt and Rome for eye cosmetics.
Usage examples of "stibium".
He was taking the powdered stibium as prescribed, and we could see that he was putting on the weight he had lost, and getting stronger day by day, but we restrained any curiosity we might have had as to exactly when the medicine turned him into a eunuch, and he did not volunteer the information.
The damned scataroni have just informed me, in honeyed words, that I never had to take the damned stibium at all!
It would be interesting to know just how recently a more benign substance than stibium replaced it, but, alas, no work of reference tells me.
Egyptian mestem, that is stibium or antimony, which was introduced into Egypt by the Asiatics at a very early period and universally used.
Her eyes are coloured with stibium, and her nostrils are shaped like the wings of a swallow.
Her face above the veil had been garishly painted, the eye-brows drawn out with stibium, kohl smeared across the lids.