英语词汇“liverstone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

† liverstone n. [after German Leberstein (late Middle High German leberstein ); compare hepatite n.¹ and later hepatite n.²] Mineralogy Obsolete (originally) any of several minerals or rocks thought to resemble the liver in colour, shape, etc. (cf. hepatite n.¹); (in later use) spec. = heavy spar n. (cf. hepatite n.²).

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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.

单词	liverstone
释义	> as lemmas liverstone † liverstone n. [after German Leberstein (late Middle High German leberstein ); compare hepatite n.¹ and later hepatite n.²] Mineralogy Obsolete (originally) any of several minerals or rocks thought to resemble the liver in colour, shape, etc. (cf. hepatite n.¹); (in later use) spec. = heavy spar n. (cf. hepatite n.²). 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. extracted from livern.¹adj.² < as lemmas
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