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单词 electre
释义 eˈlectre Obs.
Also electar.
[ad. L. ēlectr-um (cf. Pr. electre, OF. eleutre), ad. Gr. ἤλεκτρον amber, also = sense 1: cf. electron1, electrum. (In OE. the L. word was adapted as elehtre.)]
1. An alloy of gold and silver, bright and precious; also attrib.
1382Wyclif Ezek. i. 4 Electre..a metal of gold and siluer, cleerere than gold.1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 25 Pale Electre light.Ibid. 76 Electre, a metal, fowre parts gold and fift part siluer.a1626Bacon Physiol. Rem. (1679) 98 Change Silver Plate or Vessel into the Compound Stuff, being a kind of Silver Electre.1656H. More Antid. Ath. iii. ix. (1712) 168 The Bell made of Paracelsus's Electre.
2. Amber; also elixir, healing gum (cf. amber 7). Also attrib.
1595B. Barnes Spir. Sonn. in Farr S.P. Eliz. I. 41 O blessed sweet wounds! fountains of electre!1632Randolph Jealous Lov. iii, Sweet gumms that from Electar trees Distill.
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