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† sinoper Obs.
Forms: 5 zinopre, 5–6 synopre, -pyr (6 Sc. -pir), 5–7 synoper (6 Sc. -peir), 6 syneper, synapour (Sc. -par, -pir, 7 -per), 6–8 sinoper (6 seno-); 6 cinaper, 7–8 cinoper.
[a. OF. sinopre (cf. Pg. sinopera), var. of sinople sinople. Some of the forms may be partly due to confusion with cinnabar.]
1. A colour of some shade of red. Also attrib.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. 964 With knottis graue clene, Depeynt with azour, gold, zinopre, & grene. c1450Merlin xxvii. 530 Lo hym ther that thow sechest, with the shelde of synopre. 1513Douglas æneid xii. Prol. 57 The syluer scalyt fyschis..Wyth fynnis schynand brovn as synopar. 1530Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 1112 Ȝe..sall knaw hir be hir moste heuinly hewis,—Gold, Asure, Gowles, Purpour, and Synopeir. 1573Art of Limming 5 To temper good Synapour, grind Synapour lake and Synapour topes ech by himselfe. 1688Holme Armoury i. 13/2 Colours derived from Sanguine·..Synaper, or Lake colour.
2. a. A kind of red earth used as a pigment (originally one brought to Greece from Sinope in Paphlagonia). b. Cinnabar.
The latter may have been the more usual sense.
1501Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 63 Item, ij unce synapir, xvj d. 1510in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 199 Ceruse, Synoper, red okyr, yelowe oker. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Cinnabaris, a softe redde stone founde in mines, called in latin Minium, in Englysh, Cinoper... The common Cinoper is counterfayted of brimstone and quicke siluer. Ibid., Sinopis, a redde stone commonly called Sinoper, or Ruddle. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 229 Great quantitie of quicksilver and Cinaper. 1610B. Jonson Alch. i. iii, You shall deale much, with mineralls,..argaile, alkaly, Cinoper. 1610Markham Masterp. ii. viii. 233 Other Farriers take a dramme of Synoper. 1611Cotgr., Cinabre, Synoper; Vermillion; or, a kind of Lybian minerall, redder then Vermillion. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Bezoar-Stone, Others use Cinoper, Antimony, and Quicksilver. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 46/1 Sinoper, or Terra Pontica. |