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hydrargire

hydrargire

English

Noun

hydrargire (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of hydrargyrum.
    • 1598, Joshua Sylvester (translator), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (author), His Deuine Weekes and Workes, book II, chapter i, poem iii: “Furies”, line 67:
      The Steel and Load-stone, Hydrargire and Gold.
      The steel and lodestone, hydrargyrum and gold.