Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Red lead prepared by calcining lead carbonate. It has a brighter red color than minium, and is used as a pigment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium.
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- noun obsolete A kind of
minium , orred lead , made bycalcining carbonate oflead , but inferior to true minium.
Etymologies
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Latin sandix, sandyx, vermilion, or a colour like vermilion, from Ancient Greek.
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The plant Chervri (_sandix ceropolium_) is also accounted as capable of exciting amorous propensities, so much so that Tiberius, the
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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