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Webster 1913 Edition

Brimstone

Brim′stone

,
Noun.
[OE.
brimston
,
bremston
,
bernston
,
brenston
; cf. Icel.
brennistein
. See
Burn
,
Verb.
T.
, and
Stone
.]
Sulphur; See
Sulphur
.

Brim′stone

,
Adj.
Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone;
as,
brimstone
matches
.
From his
brimstone
bed at break of day
A-walking the devil has gone.
Coleridge.

Webster 1828 Edition

Brimstone

BRIM'STONE

,
Noun.
Sulphur; a hard, brittle, inflammable substance, of a lemon yellow color, which has no smell, unless heated, and which becomes negatively electric by heat and friction. It is found, in great quantities, and sometimes pure, in the neighborhood of volcanoes. It is an ingredient in a variety of minerals and ores. The sulphur of commerce is procured from its natural beds, or artificially extracted from pyrites.

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