Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Realgar; arsenic disulphid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete realgar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
realgar
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Examples
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He was charged that he, 'in the Tower of London, in the parish of Allhallows Barking, did obtain and get into his hand certain poison of green and yellow colour, called rosalgar -- knowing the same to be deadly poison -- and the same did maliciously and feloniously mingle and compound in a kind of broth poured out into a certain dish.'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 Various 1841
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It was plain, however, both from Weston's statements and from Sir Gervase's own, that the Lieutenant of the Tower had done his very best to defeat the Turner-Essex-Northampton plot for the poisoning of Overbury, throwing away the "rosalgar" and later draughts, as well as substituting food from his own kitchen for that sent in by Turner.
She Stands Accused 1935
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In May she had sent him a phial of "rosalgar," and he had received from her tarts poisoned with mercury sublimate.
She Stands Accused 1935
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