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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CINNABAR
n.Red sulphuret of mercury. Native cinnabar is an ore of quicksilver, moderately compact, very heavy, and of an elegant striated red color. It is called native vermilion, and its chief use is in painting. The intensity of its color is reduced by bruising and dividing it into small parts. It is found amorphous, or under some imitative form, or crystalized. Factitious cinnabar is a mixture of mercury and sulphur sublimed, and thus reduced into a fine red glebe.
CINNABARINE
a.Pertaining to cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CINNABAR
Cin "na *bar, n. Etym: [L. cinnabaris, Gr. qinbar, Hind. shangarf.]
1. (Min. )
Defn: Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.
2. The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion. Cinnabar Græcorum (. Etym: [L. Graecorum, gen. pl. , of the Greeks.] (Med. ) Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min. ), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.
CINNABARINE
Cin "na *ba *rine, a. Etym: [Cf. F. cinabarin.]
Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.
New American Oxford Dictionary
cinnabar
cin na bar |ˈsinəˌbär ˈsɪnəˌbɑr | ▶noun a bright red mineral consisting of mercury sulfide. It is the only important ore of mercury and is sometimes used as a pigment. • the bright red color of this; vermilion: [ as modifier ] : the blood coagulated in cinnabar threads. ORIGIN Middle English: from Latin cinnabaris, from Greek kinnabari, of obscure origin.
Oxford Dictionary
cinnabar
cinnabar |ˈsɪnəbɑː | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] a bright red mineral consisting of mercury sulphide, sometimes used as a pigment. • the bright red colour of cinnabar. 2 (also cinnabar moth ) a day-flying moth with black and red wings, whose black and yellow caterpillars feed on groundsel and ragwort. ●Tyria jacobaeae, family Arctiidae. ORIGIN Middle English: from Latin cinnabaris, from Greek kinnabari, of oriental origin.
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