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A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury. [R.]

A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism.

Quicksilver; mercury.

of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.

Principle; an element; -- used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

er Candle. -- Inches of pressure, usually, the pressure indicated by so many inches of a mercury column, as on a steam gauge. -- Inch of water. See under Water. -- Miner's inch, (Hydraulic Mining), a unit for the measurement of water. See Inch of water, under Water.

e sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.

allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation. Mercury . . . owns it a marriage by an innuendo. Dryden. Pursue your trade of scandal picking; Your innuendoes, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows. Swift.

Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.

intments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.

. An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. McElrath.

An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.

ach other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aëriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.

ly on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pr…

arine league, three geographical miles. -- Marine metal, an alloy of lead, antimony, and mercury, made for sheathing ships. Mc Elrath. -- Marine soap, cocoanut oil soap; -- so called because, being quite soluble in salt water, it is much used on shipboard. -- Marine store, a store where old canvas, ropes, etc., are…

e name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.

A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.

Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan. Byron.