sulphuroussulfurousadj.

/ˈsʌlfjʊərəs/in Chem. use/sʌlˈfjʊərəs/

Forms: Also 1500s sulpherus, sulphurus, 1500s–1600s -erous, 1600s sulferous, 1600s–1700s sulph'rous, 1600s, 1800s (U.S.) sulfurous.

Etymology: < Latin sulphurōsus (whence Old French sulphureux , from 14th cent.), or < sulphur n. + -ous suffix. In sense 5 < modern French sulfureux ( Nomencl. Chimique, 1787).

a. = sulphureous adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > sulphur or vitriol

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sulphureous1626

vitriolic1670

sulphuric1815

sulphuriferous1830

the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [adjective]

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hepatic1651

sulphurine1731

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 326/2 Sulpherus, of the nature of brimston, sulphureux.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 41 Eech path was fulsoom with sent of sulphurus orpyn.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 292 Aqua vitæ is the Sulphurous part of Wine.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 128 Lightning..cometh from sulfurous and other poysonous metallick substances.

1686 London Gaz. No. 2163/2 Fire-balls, and other Sulphurous Fire-works.

1825 Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders III. 5 The slimy and sulphureous substance called naphtha.

1872 W. Crookes tr. R. von Wagner Man. Chem. Technol. 257 Alum-shale or schist is a sulphurous iron pyrites.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxii. 47 Amid the sulphurous storm, she gazed back on the voluptuous ease of the City of the Plain.

b. = sulphureous adj. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [adjective] > sulphurous (of springs)

sulphureous1608

sulphurous1815

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > sulphur or vitriol > of waters or springs

sulphureous1608

sulphurous1815

the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [adjective] > containing, consisting of, or impregnated with > of sulphur springs

sulphureous1608

sulphurous1815

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 489 The waters called sulphurous, contain sulphuretted hydrogen.

1856 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. iii. 34 Sulphurous mud-springs.

a. = sulphureous adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > other spec.

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sulphured1605

sulphurous1606

sulphury1614

mephitic1623

nidorulent1634

empyreumatic1651

nidorous1651

Stymphalian1653

hircine1656

nitrosulphureous1656

empyreumatical1661

nitro-sulphurious1693

mephitical1704

nidorose1707

nitro-sulphurous1717

empyreumatized1829

onionized1830

Stymphalid1831

hircinous1866

1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. F2, A Sulphurous stench.

1625 A. Darcie tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. ii. 420 The Ile of Folgo, which casteth out sulphurous [1630 sulphury] flames.

1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 68 The sulpherous moist Vapours, which are of a fierce and sharp Nature are evaporated.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 104 A strong sulphurous stench.

1868 M. E. Braddon Dead Sea Fruit ii. I. 18 The sulphurous odours of a brickfield.

b. Applied to thunder and lightning (poet.), †hence to thundery or sultry weather. Also occas. volcanic. Cf. sulphureous adj. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adjective]

sulphury?1611

sulphurousa1616

fulmineous1624

fulminous1635

sulphureous1751

the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > containing sulphur

sulphury1614

sulphurousa1616

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adjective] > thunder > thundery (of weather)

sulphurousa1616

a1616 Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 205 Cracks Of sulphurous roaring.

a1616 Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 118 Mercifull heauen, Thou rather with thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the..gnarled Oke, Then the soft Mertill.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Trav. 7 The weather was very sulphurous and raging hot.

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 4, I have found the Aire as sulferous and hot in England..as in the hottest seasons at Iamaica.

1667 Milton Paradise Lost i. 171 The Sulphurous Hail Shot after us in storm.

1817 Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xiv. 39 A sulphurous hill.

1820 Wordsworth San Salvador 5 Sink (if thou must) as heretofore, To sulphurous bolts a sacrifice.

c. Of or belonging to (the smoke of) gunpowder.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > explosive for use with firearms > relating to gunpowder

sulphurous1620

1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. B3^v, The Canons Sulphurous thundering.

1622 M. Drayton Second Pt. Poly-olbion ii. xxix. 157 When Edenbrough and Leeth, into the ayre were blowne With Powders sulphurous smoke.

1801 T. Campbell Hohenlinden 24 Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy.

1816 Byron Siege Corinth xxix. 48 From every crevice comes the shot; From every shattered window pour The volleys of the sulphurous shower.

3. allusively and fig.

a. Pertaining to sulphur or brimstone as an adjunct of hell or the infernal regions; hellish, satanic. Also, pertaining to or dealing with hell-fire.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > relating to sulphur or fire of hell

sulphurious1560

sulphur1594

sulphureala1604

sulphurous1604

sulphurated1609

sulphury1630

sulphureous1644

1604 Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 3 When I to sulphrus and tormenting flames Must render vp my selfe.

a1616 Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iv. v. 125 There's hell, there's darkenes, there is the sulphurous [1608 sulphury] pit.

1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De Natura Rerum iii. 70 No Hell, no sulphurous Lakes.

1812 Shelley Devil's Walk 138 His sulphurous Majesty.

1816 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage i. i. 4 Like Satan rising from the sulphurous flood.

1886 H. W. Beecher in Christ. World Pulpit XXIX. 761 Their hands [sc. pirates'] are red with blood; their hearts are sulphurous.

1903 J. C. Smith R. Wallace 126 The sulphurous theology of the North of Scotland.

b. In immaterial sense: Fiery, heated.

ΚΠ

1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. i. 532 She ha's a sulphurous spirit, and will take Light at a sparke.

a1627 J. Beaumont Against Abused Loue in Bosworth-field (1629) 96 And with a Pandars sulph'rous breath inflam'd, Became a Meteor, for destruction fram'd.

1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 138 Quenching his sulphurous lust in dirty puddles.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. ii. 583 Duc de Rohan rose, in a sulphurous frame of mind.

c. Of language, expression: Characterized by heat; in recent use, blasphemous, profane.

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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person)

hotOE

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angrya1387

melancholiousa1393

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irefulc1400

melancholyc1450

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iracundiousa1492

passionatea1500

fumish1523

irascible1530

wrothful1535

fierya1540

warm1547

choleric1556

hot at hand1558

waspish1566

incensive1570

bilious1571

splenative1593

hot-livered1599

short1599

spitfire1600

warm-tempered1605

temperless1614

sulphurous1616

angryable1662

huffy1680

hastish1749

peppery1778

quick-tempered1792

inflammable1800

hair-triggered1806

gingery1807

spunky1809

iracund1821

irascid1823

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frenzy1859

gunpowdery1868

gunpowderous1870

tempersome1875

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tempery1905

lightningy1906

temperish1925

short-fused1979

the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > strong, sulphurous (of language)

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luscious1614

peppering1712

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unquotable1821

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bituminous1878

sultry1891

unprintable1898

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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > blasphemy > [adjective]

blasphemec1384

blasphemyc1384

blasphemous1535

blaspheming1569

blasphematory1611

sulphurous1828

1616 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor in Wks. v. v. 164 Spare no sulphurous iest that may come out of that sweatie forge of thine.

1828 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) I. 78 And so on through many other sulphurous pages.

1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks ii. 69 The sulphurous satire which he points with such deadly fire at the very Society which makes him fashionable.

1879 F. H. Burnett Haworth's II. vii. 81 Haworth stopped him by swearing again, something more sulphurously than before.

1897 C. Morley Stud. Board Schools 3 He used strong language..sulphurous words, and the very biggest D's, I was assured.

4. = sulphureous adj. 4. Also adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective] > of the nature of or resembling flame > of bluish colour

bluea1450

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sulphureous1821

sulphurous1837

the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow

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maize-coloured1852

daffodil1855

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mastic1890

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wheat-coloured1898

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tea rose1900

straw-pale1922

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. viii. 83 Burning sulphurous-blue,..it still shines.

1899 W. T. Greene Cage-birds 50 The Sulphurous Finch.

1908 Daily Chron. 17 June 6/5 Her dress of sulphurous green cloth.

5. Chem. Designating compounds in which sulphur is present in a larger proportion than in sulphuric compounds. sulphurous acid: (a) more fully, sulphurous acid gas (†air), an old name for sulphur dioxide; (b) the acid (H₂SO₃) resulting from the combination of sulphur dioxide with water. sulphurous oxide or anhydride: sulphur dioxide, SO₂, a transparent colourless gas with a pungent and suffocating smell, obtained by burning sulphur in dry air or oxygen. Hence, designating compounds derived from sulphurous acid, as sulphurous chloride, sulphurous ether.

ΚΠ

1789 R. Kerr tr. Lavoisier Elements Chem. Pref. p. xxviii, The sulphurous combinations.

1789 R. Kerr tr. Lavoisier Elements Chem. 223 The sulphurous acid is formed by the union of oxygen with sulphur by a lesser degree of oxygenation than the sulphuric acid.

1812 H. Davy Chem. Philos. in Wks. (1840) IV. 25 Sulphurous acid air.

1823 M. Faraday Exper. Res. xx. 89 Mercury, and concentrated sulphuric acid were sealed up in a bent tube and..heat was carefully applied. Sulphurous acid gas was produced where the heat acted.

1848 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 2) 392 Sulphurous ether, AeO,SO₂.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 540 Sulphurous Oxide, or Sulphurous Anhydride, SO².

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 542 Sulphurous Chloride, SOCl². Chloride of Thionyl. Sulphurous Chloraldehyde.

1897 H. Aldersmith Ringworm (ed. 4) 185 Sulphurous acid..is an excellent parasiticide.

Derivatives

ˈsulphurously adv. in a sulphurous manner; esp. with ‘sulphurous’ language.

ΚΠ

1879 F. H. Burnett Haworth's II. vii. 81 Haworth stopped him by swearing again, something more sulphurously than before.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lv. 218 The morning dawned sulphurously hot.

1897 A. Page Afternoon Ride 73 Dr. Browne sulphurously insisting on his wife receiving this ‘lady’ with cordiality.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online November 2010).

单词	sulphurous
释义	sulphuroussulfurousadj. /ˈsʌlfjʊərəs/in Chem. use/sʌlˈfjʊərəs/ Forms: Also 1500s sulpherus, sulphurus, 1500s–1600s -erous, 1600s sulferous, 1600s–1700s sulph'rous, 1600s, 1800s (U.S.) sulfurous. Etymology: < Latin sulphurōsus (whence Old French sulphureux , from 14th cent.), or < sulphur n. + -ous suffix. In sense 5 < modern French sulfureux ( Nomencl. Chimique, 1787). 1. a. = sulphureous adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > sulphur or vitriol sulphurous1530 sulphureous1626 vitriolic1670 sulphuric1815 sulphuriferous1830 the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [adjective] brimstony1382 sulphurous1530 brimstonish1562 sulphureous1626 hepatic1651 sulphurine1731 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 326/2 Sulpherus, of the nature of brimston, sulphureux. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 41 Eech path was fulsoom with sent of sulphurus orpyn. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 292 Aqua vitæ is the Sulphurous part of Wine. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 128 Lightning..cometh from sulfurous and other poysonous metallick substances. 1686 London Gaz. No. 2163/2 Fire-balls, and other Sulphurous Fire-works. 1825 Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders III. 5 The slimy and sulphureous substance called naphtha. 1872 W. Crookes tr. R. von Wagner Man. Chem. Technol. 257 Alum-shale or schist is a sulphurous iron pyrites. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxii. 47 Amid the sulphurous storm, she gazed back on the voluptuous ease of the City of the Plain. b. = sulphureous adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [adjective] > sulphurous (of springs) sulphureous1608 sulphurous1815 the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > sulphur or vitriol > of waters or springs sulphureous1608 sulphurous1815 the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [adjective] > containing, consisting of, or impregnated with > of sulphur springs sulphureous1608 sulphurous1815 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 489 The waters called sulphurous, contain sulphuretted hydrogen. 1856 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. iii. 34 Sulphurous mud-springs. 2. a. = sulphureous adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > other spec. sulphureousa1552 sulphured1605 sulphurous1606 sulphury1614 mephitic1623 nidorulent1634 empyreumatic1651 nidorous1651 Stymphalian1653 hircine1656 nitrosulphureous1656 empyreumatical1661 nitro-sulphurious1693 mephitical1704 nidorose1707 nitro-sulphurous1717 empyreumatized1829 onionized1830 Stymphalid1831 hircinous1866 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. F2, A Sulphurous stench. 1625 A. Darcie tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. ii. 420 The Ile of Folgo, which casteth out sulphurous [1630 sulphury] flames. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 68 The sulpherous moist Vapours, which are of a fierce and sharp Nature are evaporated. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 104 A strong sulphurous stench. 1868 M. E. Braddon Dead Sea Fruit ii. I. 18 The sulphurous odours of a brickfield. b. Applied to thunder and lightning (poet.), †hence to thundery or sultry weather. Also occas. volcanic. Cf. sulphureous adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adjective] sulphury?1611 sulphurousa1616 fulmineous1624 fulminous1635 sulphureous1751 the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > containing sulphur sulphury1614 sulphurousa1616 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adjective] > thunder > thundery (of weather) sulphurousa1616 a1616 Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 205 Cracks Of sulphurous roaring. View more context for this quotation a1616 Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 118 Mercifull heauen, Thou rather with thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the..gnarled Oke, Then the soft Mertill. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Trav. 7 The weather was very sulphurous and raging hot. 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 4, I have found the Aire as sulferous and hot in England..as in the hottest seasons at Iamaica. 1667 Milton Paradise Lost i. 171 The Sulphurous Hail Shot after us in storm. View more context for this quotation 1817 Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xiv. 39 A sulphurous hill. 1820 Wordsworth San Salvador 5 Sink (if thou must) as heretofore, To sulphurous bolts a sacrifice. c. Of or belonging to (the smoke of) gunpowder. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > explosive for use with firearms > relating to gunpowder sulphurous1620 1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. B3^v, The Canons Sulphurous thundering. 1622 M. Drayton Second Pt. Poly-olbion ii. xxix. 157 When Edenbrough and Leeth, into the ayre were blowne With Powders sulphurous smoke. 1801 T. Campbell Hohenlinden 24 Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. 1816 Byron Siege Corinth xxix. 48 From every crevice comes the shot; From every shattered window pour The volleys of the sulphurous shower. 3. allusively and fig. a. Pertaining to sulphur or brimstone as an adjunct of hell or the infernal regions; hellish, satanic. Also, pertaining to or dealing with hell-fire. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > relating to sulphur or fire of hell sulphurious1560 sulphur1594 sulphureala1604 sulphurous1604 sulphurated1609 sulphury1630 sulphureous1644 1604 Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 3 When I to sulphrus and tormenting flames Must render vp my selfe. View more context for this quotation a1616 Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iv. v. 125 There's hell, there's darkenes, there is the sulphurous [1608 sulphury] pit. 1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De Natura Rerum iii. 70 No Hell, no sulphurous Lakes. 1812 Shelley Devil's Walk 138 His sulphurous Majesty. 1816 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage i. i. 4 Like Satan rising from the sulphurous flood. 1886 H. W. Beecher in Christ. World Pulpit XXIX. 761 Their hands [sc. pirates'] are red with blood; their hearts are sulphurous. 1903 J. C. Smith R. Wallace 126 The sulphurous theology of the North of Scotland. b. In immaterial sense: Fiery, heated. ΚΠ 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. i. 532 She ha's a sulphurous spirit, and will take Light at a sparke. View more context for this quotation a1627 J. Beaumont Against Abused Loue in Bosworth-field (1629) 96 And with a Pandars sulph'rous breath inflam'd, Became a Meteor, for destruction fram'd. 1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 138 Quenching his sulphurous lust in dirty puddles. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. ii. 583 Duc de Rohan rose, in a sulphurous frame of mind. c. Of language, expression: Characterized by heat; in recent use, blasphemous, profane. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person) hotOE wooda1250 hastivec1300 irous1303 hastya1350 angrya1387 melancholiousa1393 quicka1400 irefulc1400 melancholyc1450 turnec1480 iracundiousa1492 passionatea1500 fumish1523 irascible1530 wrothful1535 fierya1540 warm1547 choleric1556 hot at hand1558 waspish1566 incensive1570 bilious1571 splenative1593 hot-livered1599 short1599 spitfire1600 warm-tempered1605 temperless1614 sulphurous1616 angryable1662 huffy1680 hastish1749 peppery1778 quick-tempered1792 inflammable1800 hair-triggered1806 gingery1807 spunky1809 iracund1821 irascid1823 wrathy1828 frenzy1859 gunpowdery1868 gunpowderous1870 tempersome1875 exacerbescent1889 tempery1905 lightningy1906 temperish1925 short-fused1979 the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > strong, sulphurous (of language) untowen13.. largea1413 thundering1543 viperous1605 luscious1614 peppering1712 rough1750 unquotable1821 sulphurous1828 piercent1829 unrepeatable1831 bituminous1878 sultry1891 unprintable1898 four-letter1923 society > faith > worship > sacrilege > blasphemy > [adjective] blasphemec1384 blasphemyc1384 blasphemous1535 blaspheming1569 blasphematory1611 sulphurous1828 1616 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor in Wks. v. v. 164 Spare no sulphurous iest that may come out of that sweatie forge of thine. 1828 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) I. 78 And so on through many other sulphurous pages. 1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks ii. 69 The sulphurous satire which he points with such deadly fire at the very Society which makes him fashionable. 1879 F. H. Burnett Haworth's II. vii. 81 Haworth stopped him by swearing again, something more sulphurously than before. 1897 C. Morley Stud. Board Schools 3 He used strong language..sulphurous words, and the very biggest D's, I was assured. 4. = sulphureous adj. 4. Also adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective] > of the nature of or resembling flame > of bluish colour bluea1450 sulphury1614 sulphureous1821 sulphurous1837 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow gull13.. flaxen?1523 palew1547 straw-coloured1585 branlie1589 straw colour1589 flaxy1634 festucine1646 sulphureous1656 flaxenish1661 butter colour1665 strawy1668 straw-yellow1794 bombycinous1796 sulphur-coloured1811 sherry-yellow1813 sulphur-yellow1816 bombasic1825 straw1842 wax-coloured1842 stramineous1845 maize-coloured1852 daffodil1855 daw1856 flax1873 sherry-coloured1875 mastic1890 sulpho-chromic1895 ochroid1897 wheat-coloured1898 sulphurous1899 sulphury1900 tea rose1900 straw-pale1922 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. viii. 83 Burning sulphurous-blue,..it still shines. 1899 W. T. Greene Cage-birds 50 The Sulphurous Finch. 1908 Daily Chron. 17 June 6/5 Her dress of sulphurous green cloth. 5. Chem. Designating compounds in which sulphur is present in a larger proportion than in sulphuric compounds. sulphurous acid: (a) more fully, sulphurous acid gas (†air), an old name for sulphur dioxide; (b) the acid (H₂SO₃) resulting from the combination of sulphur dioxide with water. sulphurous oxide or anhydride: sulphur dioxide, SO₂, a transparent colourless gas with a pungent and suffocating smell, obtained by burning sulphur in dry air or oxygen. Hence, designating compounds derived from sulphurous acid, as sulphurous chloride, sulphurous ether. ΚΠ 1789 R. Kerr tr. Lavoisier Elements Chem. Pref. p. xxviii, The sulphurous combinations. 1789 R. Kerr tr. Lavoisier Elements Chem. 223 The sulphurous acid is formed by the union of oxygen with sulphur by a lesser degree of oxygenation than the sulphuric acid. 1812 H. Davy Chem. Philos. in Wks. (1840) IV. 25 Sulphurous acid air. 1823 M. Faraday Exper. Res. xx. 89 Mercury, and concentrated sulphuric acid were sealed up in a bent tube and..heat was carefully applied. Sulphurous acid gas was produced where the heat acted. 1848 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 2) 392 Sulphurous ether, AeO,SO₂. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 540 Sulphurous Oxide, or Sulphurous Anhydride, SO². 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 542 Sulphurous Chloride, SOCl². Chloride of Thionyl. Sulphurous Chloraldehyde. 1897 H. Aldersmith Ringworm (ed. 4) 185 Sulphurous acid..is an excellent parasiticide. Derivatives ˈsulphurously adv. in a sulphurous manner; esp. with ‘sulphurous’ language. ΚΠ 1879 F. H. Burnett Haworth's II. vii. 81 Haworth stopped him by swearing again, something more sulphurously than before. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lv. 218 The morning dawned sulphurously hot. 1897 A. Page Afternoon Ride 73 Dr. Browne sulphurously insisting on his wife receiving this ‘lady’ with cordiality. 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