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See Gyrus.

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

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

See Cerargyrite.

A mineral of an iron-black color, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver.

An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory. "Panegyric strains." Pope. -- Pan`e*gyr"ic*al*ly, adv. Some of his odes are panegyrical. Dryden.

A festival; a public assembly. [Obs.] S. Harris.

One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.

Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.

A spagyrist. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Chemical; alchemical. [Obs.]

he days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.

nish yellow. Citrine ointment (Med.), a yellowish mercurial ointment, the unquentum hydrargyri nitratis.

lingeringly. The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron. Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay.

A panegyrical funeral oration.

The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.