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  • noun An element in names of minerals indicating the presence of lead.

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  • Item pelete de plumbo pro eidem Instrumentis que ponderant iiijc li et dj.

    London and the Kingdom - Volume I

  • "Saturnus Saturatus Dissolutus et Coelo restitutus, seu modus componendi Lapidem Philosophicum ... e plumbo ...."

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

  • A register was prepared, with a loose leaf at the end, "scedula," on which the daily events were inscribed in pencil, "cum plumbo."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Marcia, et audaci transcurris flumina plumbo, ne solum Ioniis sub fluctibus Elidis amnem dulcis ad Aetnaeos deducat semita portus?

    A Villa at Tibur 1912

  • Et de 26l. 13s. 4d. de elemosina domini Thomae Haxey ad cooperturam novi librarii cum plumbo.

    Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

  • "Centum mille perdrices plumbo confecit;" [4] that is, indeed, too often the sum of the life of an English lord; much questionable now, if _indeed_ of more value than that of many sparrows.

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

  • Insuite me defunctam in corio cervino, ac deinde in sarcophago lapideo supponite, operculumque ferro et plumbo constringite, ac demum lapidem tribus cathenis ferreis et fortissimis circundantes, clericos quinquaginta psalmorum cantores, et tot per tres dies presbyteros missarum celebratores applicate, qui feroces lenigent adversariorum incursus.

    Poems, 1799 Robert Southey 1808

  • 6, S. 31: Aqua in plumbo subit altitudinem exortus sui.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • (Non est probatum hoc quod educitur de plumbo esse aurum, eo quod sola ars non potest dare formam substantialem -- De Mineral., lib.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Et prirho quidem eas omnes - adha? fionis majoris ad fblida corpora denfiora Je = ges olim accuratiora phyfica experimenta refutarunt («), quibus evincitur, uti - que ad leviora folida etiam fiuida gravifiima adha? rere, ut ad vitrum chartam - que argentum vivum, ad eamdem chartam oleum vitrioli (o) r ad varia etiam leviffima corpora minii balfamum, aliaque graviffima pigmenta, ut ftannum ex admifto plumbo gravius ad kvius ftannum, eleclrum ex auro cum argento mi - fto

    Elementa physiologiae corporis humani .. 1776

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