单词 | bal |
释义 | baln. A mine. attributive, as in bal-girl, bal-work. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] minea1393 work1474 mineral?a1500 minery1567 balc1600 groove1666 bargh1693 winning1708 working1708 wheal1830 show1898 c1600 J. Norden Speculum Brit. (1728) Cornw. 45 Godolphyn ball. 1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 951 Godolphin Ball is the most famous of all the Balls or Mines in Cornwall. 1812 Ann. Reg. 52/1 Bal girls, as the girls are called who work about the mines. 1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xiii. 252 He could not stand the bal work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmasB.A.L. B.A.L. n. British Anti-Lewisite, a drug (dimercaprol) developed as an antidote to Lewisite and used also to neutralize metallic poisons, e.g. arsenic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > antidotes to chemical poisons B.A.L.1942 dimercaprol1945 pralidoxime1961 1942 PB 5545: Office of Sci. Res. & Devel., National Defense Res. Comm. (E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.) (title of mimeographed report) Report on the experimental manufacture and process study of BAL. 1943 Hospital Corps Q. (Washington, D.C.) 16 140 Persons required to enter areas specifically known to be contaminated with lewisite should apply BAL ointment sparingly to unprotected parts of the body. 1944 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 111/1 Recently B.A.L. ointment, which is a specific for arsenical vesicants and of great value in the treatment of the eyes, has been developed. 1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxvi. 379 Arsenical vesicants are neutralized by the local application of BAL ointment. < n.c1600 as lemmas |
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