Hypertext Webster Gateway: "calomel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aquila \Aq"ui*la\, n.; pl. {Aquil[ae]}. [L., an eagle.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of eagles.
2. (Astron.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and
Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle.
{Aquila alba} [L., white eagle], an alchemical name of
{calomel}. --Brande & C.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Calomel \Cal"o*mel\, n. [Gr. ????? beautiful + ????? black. So
called from its being white, though made from a black mixture
of mercury and corrosive sublimate. Cf. F. calom['e]las.]
(Chem.)
Mild chloride of mercury, {Hg2Cl2}, a heavy, white or
yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used
in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride.
It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
calomel
n : a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic
[syn: {mercurous chloride}]
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