Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of sorry.
  • noun Iron sulphate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Old Min. Chem.) Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry, obsolete green vitriol, or some earth impregnated with it

Etymologies

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Latin sory, from Ancient Greek σῶρυ (sōru, "a kind of ore").

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  • See comment on green vitriol.

    August 28, 2019