单词 | misy |
释义 | misyn. Now historical. 1. A yellow mineral, probably copiapite or any of several other iron or copper sulphates or sulphides. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of red copper1507 misy1543 grey copper1590 yellow ore1630 grey orea1728 pitch ore1776 red copper ore1776 fahlerz1796 tile-ore1823 cuprite1850 lettsomite1850 velvet copper-ore1850 yellows1851 meneghinite1852 peacock copper1858 peacock ore1858 horseflesh ore1868 plush-copper1881 1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. §§.iiiv/1 Musa sayeth that vitriolum romanum is that, that Dioscorides calleth Misy. Whyche is found in mynes, & hath the colour of golde, and is harde, and when it is broken it sendeth out ye golden sparcles shinynge lyke sterres. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 362 Cardanus thinketh that the oyl which should be anoynted without the body..ought to be of metall, as of orpment or drawne out of Myssi. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. xii. 510 Some..have written, that Mysy is engendred by the means of a fire made with pine wood, in the hollow veines..of brasse ore... But the truth is, of the foresaid stone or ore [sc. chalcitis] it is engendred naturally. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Misy, a kind of yellow copperas, shining like gold, brought out of Egypt and the Ile of Cyprus. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. E7 Some [minerals] have only little Sparks, as misy. 1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 42 It [sc. vitriol] is often associated with..many natural recrements of mettals, such as misy, sory, chalcitis. 1683 J. Pettus Ess. Metallick Words (at cited word), in Fleta Minor ii Missy..which G. Agricola from Pliny, calls Atramentum sutorium, or shoe-makers Black; but Pliny makes it a kind of Vitriol. 1751 J. Hill Hist. Materia Medica 141 Misy. This is a second of the vitriolic Minerals in Use among the Greeks, and which principally differs from the Chalcitis, in that it contains no cupreous Vitriol but only that of Iron. 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Misy, a species of the chalcantha, a fossil very common in the Turkish dominions. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Misy, term for a metallic recrement, or efflorescence of, or substance like the Chalcitis. 1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 656 This species [sc. copiapite] is the yellow copperas long called misy, and it might well bear now the name Misylite. 1920 Sci. Monthly Sept. 202 An equal part of misy and Sinopic gold. 1922 Sci. Monthly Jan. 89 In another passage he [sc. Galen] tells of three strata of sory, chalcite, and misy. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > mushroom or truffle mushroom1440 truffle1591 mison1601 misy1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. iii. 7 Within the province of Cyrenaica in Affricke, there is found the like excrescence, called Misy, passing sweet and pleasant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1543 |
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