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sandiver|ˈsændɪvə(r)|
Forms: 4 saundyuer, 5 sandifer, 7 sandivoir(e, sandevoire, sandover, 7, 9 sandever, 6– sandiver.
[App. a. F. suin de verre (suin, now suint, exudation from wool, app. f. suer to sweat; de of; verre glass).]
A liquid saline matter found floating over the glass after vitrification; glass-gall.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1036 [Dead Sea.] Þe clay þat clenges þer-by arn corsyes strong, As alum & alkaran,..Soufre sour, & saundyuer, & oþer such mony. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. iii. in Ashm. (1652) 39 Calx vive, Sandifer, and Vitriall. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 145 Then put of the powder of Sandiuer finely made, into his eye. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 357 Martin saith, that hee alwaies vsed to blow a little sandiuoire [1658 Sandivoir] into the [horse's] eie once a day. 1662Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass ix, The water may take from it a sort of salt called Sandever. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. v. 118 One may melt the clean and rich Gold slicks..in a Crucible with a little of Caput Mort. and Sandover. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 39 Sandiver, Scoria Vitri, is the fæces and dregs of glass. 1832G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 166 Sandiver is purchased by refiners of metals, who use it as a powerful flux. |