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sulphury, a.|ˈsʌlfərɪ|
Also 6 sulfery, sulpherie, 6–7 sulphurie, sulph'ry, 7 sulfrie, sulphory, 7, 9 (U.S.) sulfury.
[f. sulphur n. + -y.]
1. Consisting of, containing, or impregnated with sulphur; = sulphurous 1.
1580Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele 154 The yron hath more force, bycause it is not cleane of the sulpherie partes. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. iii. 200 That Bathonian Spring, Which from the sulphury mines her med'cinal force doth bring. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. (1686) 34 The gross Sulphury oars. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies iii. ii. 429 Planetary Warmth..may stir the Nitrous Spirit, as well as enflame the Sulfury Particle. 1799[see sulphur 4 b]. 1861Geikie Edward Forbes x. 289 The Statice clustered along the banks of a sulphury pool. 1892Daily News 23 Sept. 3/2 Sulphury iron.
2. = sulphureous 2 a.
1614Gorges Lucan vii. 267 The sulfrie aire rusts murdring steele. 1630[see sulphurous a. 2, quot. 1625]. 1697Dryden æneid iv. 555 Dido shall come, in a black Sulph'ry flame. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. viii. 51 Sulphury stench and boiling drench. 1823Praed Troubadour ii. 553 What a villanous, odious, sulphury smell!
b. = sulphurous 2 b.
c1611Chapman Iliad xiii. 225 A fierie Meteor, with which, Ioues sulphrie hand Opes heauen. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 50 High mountains..have..shops for sulphr'y thunder. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xii. xxxvii. Wks. (Grosart) II. 3 Had Sicily Her Etna lost, this sulphury Region Would shew it her in multiplicity. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. xxxviii, Death rides upon the sulphury Siroc. 1854B. Taylor Lands Saracen 77 (Cent.), A hot, sulphury haze.
c. Pertaining to gunpowder.
1823Byron Island iii. i, The fight was o'er,..and sulphury vapours upward driven Had left the earth, and but polluted heaven. 1881Palgrave Vis. Eng. 274 Iron hailing of pitiless death from the sulphury smoke.
3. a. = sulphurous 3 a.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Jacke-a-Lent Wks. i. 115/1 The sulphory Necromanticke Cookes. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche viii. ccxii, His [sc. Lucifer's] sulphury face. Ibid. xv. xlvii, Mighty Terror stopp'd the sulphury road Of their rank breath [sc. of the peers of hell]. [1751Warburton Pope's Donne Sat. iv. 184 note, They both call out as if they were half stifled by the sulphury air of the place.]
b. = sulphurous 3 b.
1593Marlowe & Dekker Lust's Dominion ii. v, Sulphury wrath Having..entred into Royall brests: Mark how it burns.
4. = sulphureous 4.
1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 260/2 Sulphurinus, sulphury in tint. 190319th Cent. Dec. 971 The common Dutch black and sulphury grapes. 1905E. Chandler Unveiling of Lhasa xiv. 266 The willows were mostly a sulphury yellow. |