单词 | liverstone |
释义 | > as lemmasliverstone ΚΠ 1587 B. Googe tr. A. Bertholdus Wonderfull & Strange Effect New Terra Sigillata 12 You shall easily also dissolue cluttered bloud..if you cause the patient to drink a dramme of the earth and a dramme of that bole which they that digge in quarreyes finde in the midst of the stones, and name it in Dutch [i.e. German] of the colour Lyuerstone, and of the place Steynmarle [L. germanicè Leberstein à colore, & à loco Steinmarck apellant]. 1685 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Europe (ed. 2) 151 Here I also observed a Substance between a Clay and a stone called Leberstein, or Liverstone; and upon many of these Stones I found the figures of Trees and Leaves. 1770 G. von Engeström & E. M. da Costa tr. A. F. Cronstedt Ess. Syst. Mineral. 30 The method that Nature takes in combining those matters which compose the liver-stone, may, perhaps, be the same, as when a lime-stone is laid in a heap of mundic, while it is roasting. 1814 R. Bald Rep. Mineral Surv. 2 It is commonly termed liverstone, and is consequently difficult to work. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。