VITRIOL
\vˈɪtɹiːəl], \vˈɪtɹiːəl], \v_ˈɪ_t_ɹ_iː__ə_l]\
Definitions of VITRIOL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
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(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
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subject to bitter verbal abuse
By Princeton University
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abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
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(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
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subject to bitter verbal abuse
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To dip in dilute sulphuric acid; to pickle.
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A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
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Sulphuric acid; - called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
By Oddity Software
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To dip in dilute sulphuric acid; to pickle.
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A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
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Sulphuric acid; - called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
By Noah Webster.
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A sulphate of copper, iron, or zinc, variously called blue vitriol (from copper), green vitriol (from iron), white vitriol (from zinc); sulphuric acid: commonly called oil of vitriol.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The popular name of sulphuric acid: a soluble sulphate of a metal, green vitriol-sulphate of iron, blue vitriol-sulphate of copper, white vitriol-sulphate of zinc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
Word of the day
tinctura quininae ammoniata
- A preparation made by dissolving quinin sulphate in alcohol [Br. Ph.].