sulphursulfurn.

/ˈsʌlfə(r)/

Forms: Middle English–1600s sulphre, Middle English–1600s sulphure, Middle English, 1600s, 1800s (now U.S.) sulfur, 1500s–1600s sulpher, (Middle English sou(l)fre, soulphre, Middle English solfre, 1500s sulfure, sulfre, sulphyr, 1600s sulfer), Middle English– sulphur.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman sulf(e)re (12th cent.), Old French (modern French) soufre (from 13th cent.) = Provençal solfre solpre, sulpre, Italian solfo, zolfo, Old Spanish çufre, Portuguese xofre (also, with Arabic article prefixed, Old Spanish açufre, Spanish azufre, Portuguese enxofre) < Latin sulfur(em), sulphur(em), whence also Dutch sulfer, solfer.

a. A greenish-yellow non-metallic substance, found abundantly in volcanic regions, and occurring free in nature as a brittle crystalline solid, and widely distributed in combination with metals and other substances. In popular and commercial language it is otherwise known as brimstone n. (See also sulphur vivum n.) In Chem., one of the non-metallic elements: atomic weight 32, symbol S.Sulphur exists in two distinct crystalline forms and in an amorphous form. It is manufactured largely from native sulphides of copper and iron; when refined and cast into moulds, it is the roll sulphur or stick sulphur of commerce. It is highly inflammable, and is used in the manufacture of matches, gunpowder, and sulphuric acid, for vulcanizing rubber, in bleaching, and as a disinfectant.

In popular belief sulphur has been associated with the fires of hell, with devils, and with thunder and lightning.

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

brimstonea1300

swivel1307

brinfira1325

sulphura1393

kibrit1706

a1393 Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4094 Eft with water..Sche made a cercle aboute him thries, And eft with fyr of sulphre twyes.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (Nero) l. 1036 Alum & alkaran..Soufre sour, & saundyuer.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (Nero) l. 954 Þe rayn..Of felle flaunkes of fyr & flakes of soufre.

c1420 Lydgate Assembly of Gods 314 Of fyre and sulphure all hys [sc. Pluto's] odour wase.

1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 113^v, The veyne of sulfure in the earth, receiuyng sometymes through the extreme heate of the sonne, a certaine kynde of fyre, kendleth.

1595 Lamentable Trag. Locrine iii. vi. 51 Through burning sulphur of the Limbo-lake.

a1616 Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 333 The mindes of sulphure.

1638–56 A. Cowley Davideis iii. Note xxx, Thunder hath sulphur in it.

1667 Milton Paradise Lost i. 69 A fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 67 Sulphur's suffocating steam.

1789 R. Kerr tr. Lavoisier Elements Chem. 221 They do not sufficiently disoxygenate the decomposed part of the acid to reconvert it into sulphur.

1846 G. Bird Urin. Deposits (ed. 2) 27 The sulphur existing in the blood.

1871 Tennyson Last Tournam. 614 Near me stood, In fuming sulphur blue and green, a fiend.

1881 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 48 194 Sulphur combines with carbon, in two proportions of the former with one of the latter.

1891 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 72 Good results have been got by burning sulphur in the rooms inhabited by the child.

b. In a refined state, e.g. as flowers of sulphur, it is used medicinally as a laxative, a resolvent, and a sudorific, and as an ingredient of various ointments, esp. for skin diseases.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > general chemical medicines > [noun]

sulphurc1400

crystals of tartar1605

cremor of tartar1656

cream of tartar1662

polychrest1728

neutral1770

sulphuret1789

arsenical1818

gallo-nitrate1841

glonoin1860

hepar1866

tabloid1884

Nujol1916

pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923

polyvinyl pyrrolidone1945

povidone1955

bromocriptine1974

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicines prepared from other minerals

king's silverc1400

sulphurc1400

cerusec1405

mummy1601

sal-prunella1664

prunella salt1721

antimonial1728

mummia1770

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 216 Anointing of oile of camomille & solfre grounden togidere.

a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 46 Ane enoyntment made of sope and sulphure.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xx[x]iv. 365 The iuyce of the roote [of Thapsia]..mingled with sulfre, dissolueth al swellinges being layd vpon.

1790 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 11) lv. 641 What stimulants are more active than salt and sulphur?

1897 H. Aldersmith Ringworm (ed. 4) 185 Sulphur in some form is one of the best applications for ringworm.

1908 W. J. Courthope in Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 298 The blood impure Sulphur's sharp grains alone have strength to cure.

c. With qualification indicating colour, form, state, origin, etc.: see the qualifying words, and quots. below. virgin sulphur, native sulphur in the form of transparent amber-coloured crystals. volcanic sulphur, native sulphur in opaque, lemon-yellow, crystalline masses. sulphur of ivy, corruption of sulphur vivum n.

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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [noun] > native sulphur

sulphur vif?a1425

sulphur vivum1651

virgin sulphur1668

sulphur of ivy1867

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 323, ij unces of bothe kindes of Sulphur or brimstone, that is of the quik and dead.

1590 Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. 13 That divelish yron Engin,..With windy Nitre and quick Sulphur fraught.

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 235 Sulphur Virgineum..Virgin Sulphur.

1725 Family Dict. (at cited word), There are two sorts, one of which is call'd Live Sulphur, and the other Common or Yellow Sulphur. Live or Quick Sulphur is a grey, fat, clayey, inflammable Matter.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), It is particularly call'd Fossil, or Mineral Sulphur, to distinguish it from the Sulphur of Metals, or of the Philosophers.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word), The green native sulphur.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word), The red native sulphur.

1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 199/1 Under the names of Black Sulphur, or Sulphur vivum (commonly inquired for at the chemist's under the title of Sulphur of Ivy).

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 62/1 Such pyrites sulphur is usually contaminated with arsenic.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 62/2 Commercial sulphur forms yellow crystals.

d. †acid of sulphur, sulphuric acid; †balm of sulphur, †magistery of sulphur, milk of sulphur; †oil of sulphur, ? sulphuric acid; †salt of sulphur, ? potassium sulphate ‘impregnated’ with sulphuric oxide; †spirit of sulphur, sulphuric oxide.See also alcohol n. 2, balsam n. 2b, flower n. 2c, liver n.¹ 5, milk n.¹ 5c, ruby n.¹ 3b.

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1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (ed. 5) (at cited word), Flower of Sulphur, the purest of the Sulphur, that sticks to the Head of the Alembic, in sublimation by Fire.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Salt of Sulphur, a Preparation in Chymistry, improperly so called, since it is only a Sal Polychrestum impregnated with Spirit of Sulphur, and then reduced to an Acid Salt by Evaporation of all the Moisture.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) Spirit of Sulphur..is commonly call'd Oil of Sulphur per Campanam, from the Vessel's Shape, being like a Glass-bell, in which it is usually drawn.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), Magistery, or Balm, or Milk of Sulphur, is Sulphur dissolved in a sufficient Quantity of Water, with Salt of Tartar.

1744 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 1 The volatile Acid of Sulphur.

†e. pl. Masses or deposits of native sulphur.

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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > of sulphur

sulphur1697

1697 Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 The Founts where living Sulphurs boyl.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 ii. 78/1 The inside of the crater, which is incrusted with salts and sulphurs like that of Vesuvius.

f. The colour of sulphur, a greenish-yellow.

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

gullnessa1300

butter colour1629

wheat-colour1711

straw colour1737

jonquil1791

straw-yellow1794

straw1799

wax-yellow1805

sulphur-yellow1816

wax-colour1854

daffodil1855

sulphur-colour1866

sherry colour1871

tea rose1872

mastic1890

wheat1915

sulphur1924

straw-gold1963

buttermilk1977

1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin ii. 32 Panthers' eyes..Flashed their pale sulphur on the sunless air.

1963 Listener 10 Jan. 84/2, I don't like the colours, especially the Ribena, pillarbox, scrofula, and sulphur.

a. Alchemy. One of the supposed ultimate elements of all material substances.

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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [noun] > spirit

sulphura1393

mercurya1456

azoth1477

a1393 Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2481 The quikselver..Is ferst of thilke fowre named Of Spiritz,..And the spirit which is secounde In Sal Armoniak is founde; The thridde spirit Sulphur is.

?c1585 J. Hester tr. Paracelsus Exper. & Cures C 8, These three mercurie, Salt and Sulphur can not bee one without another.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E^v, Where it [sc. matter] retaines more of the humid fatnesse, It turnes to Sulphur, or to Quick-siluer.

1652 Liber Patris Sapientiæ in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 197 Some say that of Sulphur and Mercury all Bodyes minerall are made.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 73 Sulpher is nothing else than pure fire hid in the Mercury.

1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor ii. 121 All things do consist of Salt, Sulphur and Mercury.

1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis i. i. 8 Sulphur or Oil is very soft and unctious, and the lightest part of Bodies next to Spirit.

1723 J. Clarke tr. J. Rohault Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xx. 109 Hence they conclude, that these five Substances, viz. Mercury, Phlegm, Sulphur, Salt and Caput mortuum..are the only and the true Elements of all..mixed Bodies.

1894 Muir Alch. Ess. & Chem. El. 12.

b. fig.

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1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 45 Melt not the golden Sulphur of your hart In following stil this fond and fruitlesse art.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 20 He that,..swelting at the Furnace, fineth bright Our soules dire sulphar.

1613 G. Chapman Revenge Bussy d'Ambois v. sig. I3^v, Her vnmatched spirit Can iudge of spirits, that haue her sulphure in them.

†3. A compound of sulphur; esp. a sulphide. Obs.

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

sulphura1500

sulphure1794

sulphide1836

sulphur acid1836

a1500 (?1471) G. Ripley Epist. Edward IV (Ashm.) f. 103, The philosopher spekith also..Of dyuers sulphurs.

1670 D. Cable tr. B. Valentinus Of Nat. & Supernat. Things 113 The Sulphur of Iron is found in the Ruby, the Sulphur of Venus in the Emerald.

1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets i. 33 Make also a Sulphur of the said Metals.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Golden Sulphur of Antimony, is made by boiling the Dross arising in the making of Regulus of Antimony in a little more than its weight of common Water..for about half an Hour, and then straining the Liquor, there is Vinegar poured upon it; on which a Reddish or Gold-colour Powder will precipitate.

1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 208/1 Golden sulphur of antimony, golden yellow, is the hydro-sulphuret of antimony.

1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 39/1 The white sulphur of the alchemists.

†a. Applied to thunder and lightning, a discharge of gunpowder, etc. Obs.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun]

peal1535

thud1535

bouncing1598

ran-tan1607

sulphur?1611

bursta1616

stound1627

randana1661

break1751

flare1815

slam-banging1823

bang1854

spang1883

whoomph1891

ka-boom1965

zap1984

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

sulphur?1611

artillerya1616

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > of cannon > discharge of cannon

sulphur?1611

mitraille1791

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiv. 346 His [sc. Jove's] sulphure casting with the blow, a strong, vnsauoury smoke.

?1614 W. Drummond Canon in Poems When first the Canon..Against the Heauen her roaring Sulphure shote.

a1616 Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iii. 153 To teare with Thunder the wide Cheekes a' th' Ayre, And yet to change [? read charge] thy Sulphure with a Boult That should but riue an Oake.

a1616 Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 240 The Gods throw stones of sulpher on me.

b. Applied popularly to minerals containing sulphur or supposed to be sulphurous.

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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > [noun] > other general types

fluor1610

sulphur1799

amygdule1877

heavy mineral1893

fem1902

sal1902

stress mineral1913

opaque1960

1799 Mushet in Philos. Mag. 4 381 (note) , When super~carbonated crude iron is run from the furnace, it is frequently covered with a scurf, which..is found to be a coating of plumbago..: this substance is universally denominated sulphur and..we say that the iron is sulphury.

1872 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms 424 The term sulphur is altogether erroneously given to bituminous rocks occurring in Kentucky and Tennessee, even when no sulphur is present.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 9 IX. 184 Sulphur, iron pyrites.

†c. A volcano. Obs. rare.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > volcanic formations > [noun] > volcanic vent

chimneyc1374

vent1604

firepit1651

spiraculum1670

spiracle1671

solfatara1764

sulphur1764

volcanic crater1776

fumarole1811

air volcano1814

mud volcano1816

salse1831

blowhole1858

pipe1877

soufrière1879

bocca1881

mofette1887

pan1888

blowing-cone1895

smoke-hole1899

fault-vent1903

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 74 (note) Volcanoes are called sulphurs, or solfaterres, in the West-Indies.

d. Mining (local). Carburetted hydrogen, fire-damp.

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the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > explosive gas in mines

dampa1592

firedamp1662

fire1672

wildfire1672

fulminating damp1675

dirt1831

sulphur1851

stifle1886

1851 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham (ed. 2) 53 Sulphur, a common expression among old miners for fire-damp.

1869 Eng. Mech. 3 Dec. 276/1.

e. vegetable sulphur: see vegetable sulphur n. at vegetable adj. Special uses.

5. ellipt.

a. = sulphur butterfly n. at Compounds 3(a).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > tinea sulphurella (sulphur)

sulphur1832

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Pieridae > genus Colias > member of

yellow1794

clouded yellow butterfly1827

sulphur1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 2 The Clouded Sulphur (Colias Euprome, Stephens).

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 223 The Sulphur (Tinea sulphurella, Haworth) appears in November.

1891 B. G. Johns Among Butterflies 111 A yellow butterfly which he at first took to be a common Sulphur.

1902 W. J. Holland Butterfly Bk. 285 Genus Catopsilia..(The Great Sulphurs).

1902 W. J. Holland Butterfly Bk. 289 Genus Colias..(The Sulphurs).

1902 W. J. Holland Butterfly Bk. 294 Genus Terias..(The Small Sulphurs).

b. = sulphur-headed cauliflower, see sulphur-headed adj. at Compounds 3(b).

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [noun] > cauliflower

cauliflower1597

sulphur1842

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > cauliflower

flowery cole1578

cauliflower1597

sulphur1842

Romanesco1982

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 626 The late sulphur, sown at the same time, will come into use during April and May.

c. = sulphur-cast n., sulphur-impression n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > plaster, wax, etc.

ectype1662

plaster cast1773

electrotype1840

sulphur-impression1840

voltatype1842

sulphur1867

squeeze1882

sulphur-cast1909

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. viii. 240 Helena and her young companions now came into the room, bringing with them the sulphurs at which they had been looking.

1867 Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) III. 857 Sulphurs, impressions taken by the goldsmiths of the sixteenth century from the engravings executed on plate, paxes, &c., and which they obtained by spreading a layer of melted sulphur on the face of the plate.

6. colloq. or slang. Pungent talk, ‘sulphurous’ language.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > mordancy > pungent remark, writing, or language

cutter1688

pepperer1712

sulphur1897

1897 Daily News 31 Aug. 5/7 Doing nothing but sit round and talk sulphur about the new tariff.

1906 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Jan. 1 By putting as much sulphur as possible into his notorious election address.

†7. as adj. Sulphureous, sulphurous. Obs.

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

sulphurious1560

sulphur1594

sulphureala1604

sulphurous1604

sulphurated1609

sulphury1630

sulphureous1644

1594 Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido ii. i, Came Hector's ghost, With ashy visage, blueish sulphur eyes.

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E3, Stir angry Nemesis the happie helme, That with the sulphur battels of your rage, The English Fleete may be disperst and sunke.

1899 Daily News 7 Oct. 8/5 White or sulphur-chain-stitch.

Compounds

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a. Simple attrib.

(a) Of, pertaining to, consisting of, or containing sulphur.

sulphur ball n.

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1590 Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H2^v, As if Bellona, Goddesse of the war Threw naked swords and *sulphur bals of fire.

sulphur bed n.

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1878 Times 10 May 4/3 There are..three great *sulphur beds [in the land of Midian].

sulphur cure n.

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1868 Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 571 The *sulphur-cure for the oïdium, the most formidable disease that attacks the vine.

sulphur deposit n.

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1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 61/1 The *sulphur-deposits of Sicily.

sulphur dust n.

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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 92/1 Little balls made vp of powder wett, and rowled in *sulphur dust.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sulphur, Sulphur-Dust well sifted.

sulphur flake n.

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1820 Shelley Vision of Sea in Prometheus Unbound 175 Like *sulphur-flakes hurl'd from a mine of pale fire.

sulphur flame n.

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1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. G3^v, Vpon a *sulpher flame: Your selues shall finde Lorenzo bathing him, In boyling lead.

1856 Buckton & Hofmann in Q. Jrnl. Chem. Soc. IX. 251 The black residue burns with a sulphur-flame.

sulphur fume n.

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1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 744/1 There is..nothing new in applying *sulphur-fumes..as a disinfectant.

1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 287 Sulphur Fumes Apparatus (Adams's), for diphtheria.

sulphur fumigation n.

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1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 665 *Sulphur lotions or *sulphur fumigations may be substituted.

sulphur hill n.

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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 403 This Grotto..standeth on the side and root of a *sulphure hill.

sulphur mine n.

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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 86 Streames, distilling through the *Sulphur Mines.

1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 116 Grotta di cane..is nothing else but such a damp (continued by the neighbourhood of certain Sulphur-mines).

1828 R. Duppa Trav. Italy 143 The town [of Siculiana] derives considerable advantages from sulphur mines.

sulphur ore n.

sulphur salt n.

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1675 W. Simpson Sulphur-bath Knarsb. 4 The Salt separated from the Sulphur-water, being put into boyling Milk, will make it shil into Curds and Whey;..we..found the *Sulphur Salt to cause a speedy separation.

sulphur soap n.

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1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 610 The patient may be washed with *sulphur soap, or with sulphur and tar soap.

sulphur spa n.

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1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland vii. 45 Towards the Borders of Northumberland, is a *Sulphur-Spaw.

sulphur stick n.

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1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 744/1 A piece of *sulphur~stick.

sulphur vein n.

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1723 R. Blackmore Alfred v. 150 Naphtha and *Sulphur-Veins, that kindled rage.

sulphur water n.

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1665 in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 243 The first inst we arrived att the nasty Spaw, and have now began to drinke the horid *sulfer watter.

1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. 258 A stream of sulphur-water.

sulphur well n.

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1652 J. French York-shire Spaw (title-page), The Stinking, or *Sulphur Well.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chymica ii. 142 The Sulphur Well at Knarsborough.

1873 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 26 1090 Two of the most noted Harrogate Spas, viz., the ‘Old Sulphur Well’ and the ‘Chloride of Iron Spa’.

(b) In medicinal preparations.

sulphur electuary n.

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1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxx. 420, I have..seen very good effects from a perseverance in the use of the *sulphur electuary.

sulphur lotion n.

sulphur lozenge n.

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1844 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. (ed. 2) 377/1 *Sulphur lozenges..used in asthma and in hæmorrhoïds.

sulphur ointment n.

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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 641 The simplest..cure is to be obtained by the *sulphur ointment.

sulphur tablet n.

b. In chemical terms.

sulphur atom n.

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1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 64/1 The junction of one ethyl group with a *sulphur atom in the second salt.

sulphur base n.

sulphur compound n.

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1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. i. 36 *Sulphur Compound.

sulphur dioxide n.

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1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xii. 126 *Sulphur [1866 Sulphuric] Dioxide, or Sulphurous Acid.

sulphur group n.

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1884 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (at cited word), *Sulphur group, the elementary substances sulphur, selenium, and tellurium; all having a strong attraction for oxygen.

sulphur pyrites n.

sulphur series n.

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1856 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. II. 565 Sulphurous acid is..regarded as the starting point of several combinations belonging to the *sulphur series.

sulphur trioxide n.

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1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xiii. 129 *Sulphur [1866 Sulphuric] Trioxide, or Sulphuric Anhydride.

sulphur vapour n.

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1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 164 The density of..*sulphur-vapour.

c. Objective and instrumental.

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sulphur-bearing adj.

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1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 61/2 *Sulphur-bearing Miocene rocks.

sulphur-containing adj.

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1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 64/2 A group of *sulphur-containing acids of general formula H₂S_nO₆.

sulphur-flaming adj.

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1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. B7^v, On flintie Etnaes *sulphur-flaming mountaines.

sulphur-headed adj.

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1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xvii. 178 The wooden, *sulphur-headed matches supplied by the café.

sulphur-impregnated adj.

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1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lvii. 243 The pale *sulphur-impregnated waters of the river Albula.

sulphur-scented adj.

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1869 A. J. Wilson Vashti vi, Some red-liveried, *sulphur-scented imp of Abaddon.

sulphur-smoking adj.

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1628 W. Mure Doomesday 128 in Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 167 Hell's *sulphure-smoking throat.

sulphur-tipped adj.

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1743 Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 235 Ye shall not..*sulphur-tipt, emblaze an Ale-house fire.

(b)

sulphur-roast v.

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1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. to R. Southey 25 Dec. The Devil *sulphur-roast them!

C2. Special combs.

sulphur acid n. an old name for sulphides of electronegative metals, as arsenic, antimony.

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

sulphura1500

sulphure1794

sulphide1836

sulphur acid1836

1836 T. Thomson Outl. Mineral. II. 507 The compounds which it [sc. sulphur] forms with arsenic and antimony..constitute *sulphur acids.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 643 Sulphur-acids, or Sulphanhydrides.

sulphur alcohol n. a compound of the nature of an alcohol in which sulphur replaces oxygen.

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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [noun] > compounds > miscellaneous others

foam of nitre1538

hepar1796

oxysulphion1840

sulphocyanogen1841

sulphuryl1867

sulphion1868

sulphur alcohol1876

thio-ether1889

trisulphone1892

sulphydryl1901

sulphane1955

1876 [see sulphur ether n.].

sulphur bacterium n. Biol. any of the bacteria which derive their energy from the oxidation of sulphur or inorganic compounds of sulphur.

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the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > bacterium > [noun] > types of

vibrio1850

micrococcus1870

microzyme1870

Spirillum1875

mycothrix1876

leptothrix1877

Spirochaete1877

streptococcus1877

Actinomyces1879

frogspawn1880

schizophyte1880

schizomycetes1881

gonococcus1882

saprophile1882

vibrion1882

coccus1883

diplococcus1883

streptobacteria1883

Clostridium1884

actinomycetes1885

pneumococcus1885

macrococcus1887

staphylococcus1887

iron bacterium1888

Proteus1888

ferrobacterium1890

meningococcus1890

rhizobium1890

sulphobacteria1890

nitrobacterium1891

Streptothrix1891

sulphur bacterium1891

myxobacter1892

Myxococcus1892

tetracoccus1893

coli1894

Pasteurella1895

pyrotoxin1895

Gaertner1897

purple bacterium1897

myxobacterium1898

pseudomonas1899

thiobacteria1900

treponema1908

corynebacterium1909

mycobacterium1909

Salmonella1913

Neisseria1915

botulinum1916

rickettsia1916

leptospira1918

acetobacter1920

Brucella1920

pseudomonad1921

strep1927

enterobacterium1929

opportunist1937

eubacterium1939

agrobacterium1942

persister1944

Moraxella1948

enteric1956

streptomycete1956

leptospire1957

transformant1957

lysogen1958

listeria1961

C. difficile1962

yersinia1967

Campylobacter1971

cyanobacterium1973

coryneform1976

eubacterium1977

legionella1979

acetogen1982

C. diff.1990

acidophilous1996

1891 A. B. Griffiths Res. on Micro-organisms viii. 179 All belong to the class of ‘*sulphur-bacteria’..—that is, bacteria which in the presence of free hydrogen-sulphide oxidize sulphur, forming sulphuric acid.

1939 F. E. Clements & V. E. Shelford Bio-Ecol. iii. 101 Hydrogen sulphide is also acted upon by a remarkable group of sulphur bacteria.

1962 W. W. Umbreit Mod. Microbiol. xv. 276/2 There are three major types of photosynthetic bacteria. The first two of them, the thiorhodaceae and the chlorobacteriaceae, are sulfur bacteria.

1979 K. Arms & P. S. Camp Biol. x. 165 Purple and green sulfur bacteria (Thiorhodaceae) use hydrogen gas and hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) as hydrogen donors.

sulphur bath n. †(a) a sulphur-spring; (b) a bath to which flowers of sulphur have been added, used in the treatment of skin diseases.

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the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > sulphur

sulphur bath1675

sulphur-spring1785

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > lotion or bath > [noun] > specific

lyea700

eye-water?1593

mouth-water1598

arquebusade1739

eye lotion1797

black wash1805

mouthwash1806

bloodbath1834

starch bath1836

sulphur bath1843

whitewash1897

wax bath1916

1675 W. Simpson (title) A Discourse of the *Sulphur-Bath at Knarsbrough in York-Shire.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxviii. 355 By the use of sulphur baths,..all were greatly improved.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. iii. 21 The sulphur baths of Sinuessa.

sulphur-cast n. = sulphur-impression n.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > plaster, wax, etc.

ectype1662

plaster cast1773

electrotype1840

sulphur-impression1840

voltatype1842

sulphur1867

squeeze1882

sulphur-cast1909

1909 W. Le Queux House of Whispers xxviii. (1913) 195 *Sulphur-casts of seals recently acquired by that institution.

sulphur-colour adj. = sulphur-yellow n. and adj.

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

gullnessa1300

butter colour1629

wheat-colour1711

straw colour1737

jonquil1791

straw-yellow1794

straw1799

wax-yellow1805

sulphur-yellow1816

wax-colour1854

daffodil1855

sulphur-colour1866

sherry colour1871

tea rose1872

mastic1890

wheat1915

sulphur1924

straw-gold1963

buttermilk1977

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Sulphureus, *sulphur-colour; a pale bright-yellow, with a mixture of white.

1897 Daily News 24 Apr. 6/4 Sulphur-colour goes admirably with tan.

sulphur-coloured adj. = sulphur-yellow n. and adj.

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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

1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 480 A *sulphur-coloured spot beneath each eye.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 863 Sulphur-coloured scabs.

sulphur cone n. (see quot.).

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1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts *Sulphur Cone, an electrical experiment and apparatus to prove the effect of separation of the contact of two bodies, occasioning them to show signs of electricity.

sulphur cycle n. Ecol. the cycle of changes whereby sulphur compounds are interconverted between sulphates and hydrogen sulphide in the air and sulphates, sulphides, and sulphur in organisms and the soil.

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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > environment or habitat > [noun] > sulphur or nitrogen cycle

nitrogen cycle1906

sulphur cycle1967

1967 New Scientist 9 Nov. 333/1 The continuation and evolution of life depends upon a stable eco-system. A characteristic of such a system is that cyclical transformations of the major biological elements take place within it—the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the *sulphur cycle and so on.

1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol. xxx. 745/2 Bacteria can carry out each of the processes in the sulfur cycle; bacteria and certain colorless blue-green algae are the only known living agents of the steps involving interconversions of inorganic forms of sulfur.

1977 I. M. Campbell Energy & Atmosphere viii. 289 More efficient dispersal of sulphur dioxide at source cannot be regarded as an acceptable long term solution, since that merely transfers the problem to another region or country, the problem intensified by the fact that the anthropogenic term in the sulphur cycle is of the same order of magnitude as the natural terms.

sulphur ether n. a compound analogous to ether in which sulphur replaces oxygen.

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1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 553/1 *Sulphur, Selenium, and Tellurium Alcohols and Ethers.

sulphur-hued adj. = sulphur-yellow n. and adj.

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1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos vii. 172 Delicate *sulphur-hued flowers.

sulphur-impression n. an impression taken of a seal, medallion, etc. in a composition consisting of sulphur and wax.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > plaster, wax, etc.

ectype1662

plaster cast1773

electrotype1840

sulphur-impression1840

voltatype1842

sulphur1867

squeeze1882

sulphur-cast1909

1840 R. Ellis Laws & Regul. Customs IV. 154 Duties on..*Sulphur Impressions, for every 100l value £5 0s. 0d.

sulphur-match n. a lucifer match tipped with sulphur.

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting

wax tapera1398

match1519

brimstone match1594

card match1654

spunk1755

light1787

spill1821

lighter1828

candle-paper1829

fidibus1829

Promethean1829

sulphur-match1830

pipelight1842

candle-lighter1855

kitchen match1862

spiller1936

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. viii. 281 By means of burning *sulphur matches in the casks.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxvii. 163 They sold sulphur matches, and old clothes, and broken glass.

sulphur-ore n. an ore which yields sulphur, e.g. iron pyrites.

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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > sulphur ore

sory1601

sulphur-ore1681

sulphur-pyrites1796

1681 N. Grew Mvsævm Regalis Societatis iii. iii. ii. 345 *Sulphur-Ore..if burnt..hath the scent of Brimstone.

1871 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 24 449 On the Roasting of Sulphur Ores, with a New Roasting Oven.

sulphur print n. Metallurgy a print on photographic bromide paper showing the distribution of sulphur as sulphides in a steel surface with which it has been placed in contact.

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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > print showing distribution of sulphur

sulphur print1912

1912 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 85 380, I have adopted a method which is virtually a modification of the well known method of obtaining a ‘*sulphur print’.

1977 R. B. Ross Handbk. Metal Treatm. 373 Chemical analysis and micro-examination..require laboratory equipment and skilled personnel, whereas the Sulphur print may be used in relatively unsophisticated conditions.

sulphur-pyrites n.

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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > sulphur ore

sory1601

sulphur-ore1681

sulphur-pyrites1796

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 75 The compound of Sulphur and Iron, called Martial Pyrites, or, *Sulphur Pyrites and often simply Pyrites.

sulphur rain n. (see quot. 1882).

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > with suspended particles or pollution

red rain?1660

yellow rain1755

blood rain1772

acid rain1845

sulphur rain1882

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts

sandarac1623

globulet1671

powder1672

bread1682

farina1721

pollen1723

father-dust1728

rough wax1744

yellow rain1755

dust1776

fovilla1793

anther dust1797

pollen mass1828

pollen tube1830

intextine1835

pollen grain1835

pollen granule1835

exine1839

exintine1839

intine1839

pollinium1849

sulphur shower1854

pollinic mass1857

pollen chamber1863

smoke1868

pollen sac1872

pollinarium1881

sulphur rain1882

pollinic chamber1885

perine1895

pollen content1926

sculpturing1943

monad1947

nexine1948

sexine1948

1882 H. Edmonds Elem. Bot. 132 Often in Fir forests the pollen is given off into the air in such enormous quantities that it is washed down by the rain as a yellow powder, and is popularly known as *sulphur rain.

sulphur salt n. an old name for a salt produced by the combination of a ‘sulphur acid’ with another metallic base.

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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > sulphates or sulphites > other sulphates

aluma1398

aphronitrea1398

white vitriol1676

oxysulphate1802

hyposulphate1819

sulphur salt1836

potash alum1837

hepar1866

kainite1868

kalinite1868

nickel sulphate1868

trisulphate1880

trisulphonate1892

thalline sulphate1899

1836 T. Thomson Outl. Mineral. II. 507 Sulphur acids..have the property of combining with other metallic sulphurets as bases, and thus of forming what are called *sulphur salts.

sulphur shower n. = sulphur rain n.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts

sandarac1623

globulet1671

powder1672

bread1682

farina1721

pollen1723

father-dust1728

rough wax1744

yellow rain1755

dust1776

fovilla1793

anther dust1797

pollen mass1828

pollen tube1830

intextine1835

pollen grain1835

pollen granule1835

exine1839

exintine1839

intine1839

pollinium1849

sulphur shower1854

pollinic mass1857

pollen chamber1863

smoke1868

pollen sac1872

pollinarium1881

sulphur rain1882

pollinic chamber1885

perine1895

pollen content1926

sculpturing1943

monad1947

nexine1948

sexine1948

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > shower > with pollen

sulphur shower1854

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 340 The sulphur-like pollen of the pitch-pine soon covered the pond and the stones and rotten wood... This is the ‘*sulphur showers’ we hear of.

1883 Evang. Mag. July 311 The so~called ‘sulphur-showers’ often seen in pine forests.

sulphur soap n. a medicinal soap containing elemental sulphur for use in treating skin complaints.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for skin diseases > mineral-derived

sulphur soap1894

Thiosapiol1899

Soamin1908

succinol1913

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > soap > type of soap > specific

hard soap?a1425

oatmeal soapa1525

spatarent soap1526

Castile soap1631

Naples soapa1739

yellow soap1762

honey soap1772

curd soap1780

primrose soap1796

palm soap1821

Gallipoli soap1822

Windsor soap1822

Windsor1836

Venice soap1842

scum-soap1852

sand-soap1855

lime soap1857

marine soap1857

sassafras soap1860

carbolic soap1863

sulphur soap1894

opopanax soap1897

primrose1899

rock1903

carbolic1907

Crazy Foam1965

1894 A. Watt Art of Soap-making xxi. 172 Sir H. Marsh's *Sulphur Soap... A few drops of otto of roses are added to give the soap an agreeable fragrance.

1925 G. Martin Mod. Soap & Detergent Industry II. ii. iv. 34 Sulphur soaps, when dissolved in water, slowly evolve sulphuretted hydrogen, which gives them an unpleasant smell.

1953 J. Davidsohn et al. Soap Manuf. I. xxii. 505 Sulfur soaps are frequently prepared in combination with beta-naphthol, tar, glycerine and camphor.

sulphur-spring n. a spring containing compounds of sulphur or impregnated with sulphurous gases.

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the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > sulphur

sulphur bath1675

sulphur-spring1785

1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 59 We are told of a *Sulphur-spring on Howard's creek of Greenbriar.

1811 W. J. Hooker Jrnl. Tour Iceland 195 We could not resist the present temptation of alighting from our horses, to visit one of the sulphur-springs that lay in our route.

1874 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 27 881 The Sulphur Springs of Trentschin-Teplitz.

sulphur-tinted adj. = sulphur-yellow n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1895 Daily News 2 Aug. 6/6 *Sulphur~tinted nasturtiums.

sulphur-tree n. a hard-wooded tree, Morinda lucida, found in West Central Africa and used for building purposes.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > African

shittima1382

citrus1555

cam-wood1699

jacaranda1753

kokerboom1774

quiver tree1789

geelhout1790

rooihout1790

yellowwood1790

mat-wood1792

assegai1793

assegai tree1793

hardpear1801

rooi els1801

argan1809

beaver-wood1810

mat tree1812

saffraan1819

salie1819

sneezewood1834

African teak1842

hyawaballi1851

sage-wood1854

mvule1858

til1858

yari-yari1858

cannibal stinkwood1859

kiaat1862

knobwood1862

milkwood1862

tryssil1862

sulphur-tree1863

khaya1864

cailcedra1866

flat-crown1868

umzimbeet1870

kuka1882

odum1887

iroko1890

opepe1891

Natal mahogany1904

muhimbi1906

obeche1906

agba1908

makoré1915

afara1920

agboin1920

abura1921

podo1922

afrormosia1923

guarea1936

Mansonia1936

dahoma1955

utile1956

1863 R. F. Burton Abeokuta II. 77 The *sulphur-tree..also called brimstone-tree.

sulphur-weed n. = sulphurwort n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies

swine's fennel?a1425

swine's finkle?a1450

hog's fennel1525

dog fennel1526

harstrang1562

mountain parsley1578

sow-fennel1578

sulphurwort1578

much good1597

rock parsley1597

milky parsley1640

brimstone-wort1678

marsh milkweed1787

milk parsley1787

sea sulphur-wort1807

sea sulphur-weed1850

sulphur-weed1850

sea hog's-fennel1855

1850 A. Pratt Common Things Sea-side i. 67 The Sea *Sulphur~weed.

sulphur-work n. (also sulphur-works) a sulphur manufactory.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > others

coal pitOE

wireworks1598

alum works1617

copperas-worka1661

saltpetre house1683

nailery1802

railworks1863

lockworks1864

sulphur-work1870

tack-mill1884

pitch-boilery1885

rubber plant1886

soot house1957

1870 C. Kingsley At Last ii, In 1836, two gentlemen of Antigua..set up *sulphur works at the Souffrière of St. Lucia.

sulphur-yellow n. and adj. (of) the pale-yellow colour characteristic of sulphur.

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

gullnessa1300

butter colour1629

wheat-colour1711

straw colour1737

jonquil1791

straw-yellow1794

straw1799

wax-yellow1805

sulphur-yellow1816

wax-colour1854

daffodil1855

sulphur-colour1866

sherry colour1871

tea rose1872

mastic1890

wheat1915

sulphur1924

straw-gold1963

buttermilk1977

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

1816 Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. ii. 381 Bunting of a blood-coloured rufous; beneath *sulphur-yellow.

1896 W. F. Kirby Handbk. Lepidoptera II. 209 Of a yellow colour, varying from light sulphur-yellow to deep orange.

C3.

attrib. passing into adj.

(a) ‘Of the colour of sulphur, sulphur-coloured, sulphur-yellow’, chiefly in specific names of animals having sulphur-yellow colouring.

sulphur butterfly n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Pieridae > genus Gonepteryx > gonepteryx rhamni (sulphur butterfly)

brimstone butterfly1824

sulphur butterfly1879

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 207 *Sulphur butterflies hover here early in the spring.

1891 B. G. Johns Among Butterflies 98 The Brimstone or Sulphur butterfly.

sulphur parakeet n.

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1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 428 *Sulphur Parrakeet.

sulphur pearl n.

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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 152 The *Sulphur Pearl (Margaritia palealis, Stephens).

(b) Esp. in parasynthetic comb.

sulphur-bellied adj.

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1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 431 Myiodynastes luteiventris, *Sulphur-bellied Striped Flycatcher.

sulphur-breasted adj.

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1909 Daily Chron. 6 Feb. 3/3 The *sulphur-breasted toucan.

sulphur-crested adj.

sulphur-headed adj.

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1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 626 *Sulphur~headed [cauliflower], of which the best variety is the Portsmouth.

(c)

sulphur-bottom n. (also sulphur-bottom whale) Sibbald's rorqual (see Sibbald n.).

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenopteridae > genus Balaenoptera (rorqual) > species musculus (blue whale)

sulphur-bottom1782

blue whale1851

Sibbald1897

1782 ‘J. H. St. J. de Crèvecœur’ Lett. from Amer. Farmer vi. 169 The *sulphur-bottom, river St. Laurence, ninety feet long.

1829 T. C. Haliburton Hist. & Statist. Acct. Nova Scotia II. ix. 404 Fish-Whale Species. *Sulphur Whale.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxii. 153 Adieu, Sulphur Bottom!

a1860 J. W. Dawson in Borthwick's Br. Amer. Rar. 221 Another rorqual..is known from its yellow belly as the sulphur-whale.

1904 F. T. Bullen Creatures of Sea xiv. 177 A huge sulphur-bottom whale..which..attains a maximum length of one hundred and fifty feet.

1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. iv. 94 These blue whales are the great sulphur-bottoms.

1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea II. xv. 280 It [sc. Sibbald's rorqual] has also been called the sulphur-bottom whale on account of a yellowish scum of diatoms which these whales usually carry when they first return to polar waters again after visiting warmer latitudes for breeding.

sulphur cockatoo n. (also sulphur-crested cockatoo) a white cockatoo, Kakatoe galerita, with a yellow crest, native to Australia.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > cockatoo > types of

sulphur cockatoo1811

rose cockatoo1829

gang-gang1833

Leadbeater's cockatoo1848

galah1862

Major Mitchell1898

1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 480 Smaller *Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Psittacus sulphureus.

1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns 73 Did you ever hear a real sulphur cockatoo in its own woods, mister?

1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 17 Sulphur-crested cockatoos sail down upon the red raiment of the tree.

1963 Times 8 June 14/3 Probably the most talkative..is one of the four sulphur-crested cockatoos.

sulphur tuft n. a toadstool, Hypholoma fasciculare, with a yellow cap tinged with brown.

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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > other fungi

bolet1526

boletus1601

byssus1753

fly-fungus1822

turban-top1828

stilbid1846

empusa1856

Scotch bonnet1861

wolf's-milk1861

lizard's herb1866

fairy ring1870

Malta fungus1870

flowers of tan1882

mycorrhiza1886

fumago1887

milky cap1887

moss-gold1887

oomycete1889

razor strop fungus1893

club-fungusa1909

sulphur tuft1909

bolete1914

old man of the woods1972

1909 E. W. Swanton Fungi 115 ‘*Sulphur-tuft’... Taste intensely bitter. Poisonous.

1979 Country Life 25 Oct. 1423/1 The fruiting bodies of sulphur tuft..also grow on tree stumps.

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单词	sulphur
释义	sulphursulfurn. /ˈsʌlfə(r)/ Forms: Middle English–1600s sulphre, Middle English–1600s sulphure, Middle English, 1600s, 1800s (now U.S.) sulfur, 1500s–1600s sulpher, (Middle English sou(l)fre, soulphre, Middle English solfre, 1500s sulfure, sulfre, sulphyr, 1600s sulfer), Middle English– sulphur. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman sulf(e)re (12th cent.), Old French (modern French) soufre (from 13th cent.) = Provençal solfre solpre, sulpre, Italian solfo, zolfo, Old Spanish çufre, Portuguese xofre (also, with Arabic article prefixed, Old Spanish açufre, Spanish azufre, Portuguese enxofre) < Latin sulfur(em), sulphur(em), whence also Dutch sulfer, solfer. 1. a. A greenish-yellow non-metallic substance, found abundantly in volcanic regions, and occurring free in nature as a brittle crystalline solid, and widely distributed in combination with metals and other substances. In popular and commercial language it is otherwise known as brimstone n. (See also sulphur vivum n.) In Chem., one of the non-metallic elements: atomic weight 32, symbol S.Sulphur exists in two distinct crystalline forms and in an amorphous form. It is manufactured largely from native sulphides of copper and iron; when refined and cast into moulds, it is the roll sulphur or stick sulphur of commerce. It is highly inflammable, and is used in the manufacture of matches, gunpowder, and sulphuric acid, for vulcanizing rubber, in bleaching, and as a disinfectant. In popular belief sulphur has been associated with the fires of hell, with devils, and with thunder and lightning. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [noun] brimstonea1300 swivel1307 brinfira1325 sulphura1393 kibrit1706 a1393 Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4094 Eft with water..Sche made a cercle aboute him thries, And eft with fyr of sulphre twyes. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (Nero) l. 1036 Alum & alkaran..Soufre sour, & saundyuer. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (Nero) l. 954 Þe rayn..Of felle flaunkes of fyr & flakes of soufre. c1420 Lydgate Assembly of Gods 314 Of fyre and sulphure all hys [sc. Pluto's] odour wase. 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 113^v, The veyne of sulfure in the earth, receiuyng sometymes through the extreme heate of the sonne, a certaine kynde of fyre, kendleth. 1595 Lamentable Trag. Locrine iii. vi. 51 Through burning sulphur of the Limbo-lake. a1616 Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 333 The mindes of sulphure. 1638–56 A. Cowley Davideis iii. Note xxx, Thunder hath sulphur in it. 1667 Milton Paradise Lost i. 69 A fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd. View more context for this quotation 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 67 Sulphur's suffocating steam. 1789 R. Kerr tr. Lavoisier Elements Chem. 221 They do not sufficiently disoxygenate the decomposed part of the acid to reconvert it into sulphur. 1846 G. Bird Urin. Deposits (ed. 2) 27 The sulphur existing in the blood. 1871 Tennyson Last Tournam. 614 Near me stood, In fuming sulphur blue and green, a fiend. 1881 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 48 194 Sulphur combines with carbon, in two proportions of the former with one of the latter. 1891 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 72 Good results have been got by burning sulphur in the rooms inhabited by the child. b. In a refined state, e.g. as flowers of sulphur, it is used medicinally as a laxative, a resolvent, and a sudorific, and as an ingredient of various ointments, esp. for skin diseases. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > general chemical medicines > [noun] sulphurc1400 crystals of tartar1605 cremor of tartar1656 cream of tartar1662 polychrest1728 neutral1770 sulphuret1789 arsenical1818 gallo-nitrate1841 glonoin1860 hepar1866 tabloid1884 Nujol1916 pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923 polyvinyl pyrrolidone1945 povidone1955 bromocriptine1974 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicines prepared from other minerals king's silverc1400 sulphurc1400 cerusec1405 mummy1601 sal-prunella1664 prunella salt1721 antimonial1728 mummia1770 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 216 Anointing of oile of camomille & solfre grounden togidere. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 46 Ane enoyntment made of sope and sulphure. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xx[x]iv. 365 The iuyce of the roote [of Thapsia]..mingled with sulfre, dissolueth al swellinges being layd vpon. 1790 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 11) lv. 641 What stimulants are more active than salt and sulphur? 1897 H. Aldersmith Ringworm (ed. 4) 185 Sulphur in some form is one of the best applications for ringworm. 1908 W. J. Courthope in Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 298 The blood impure Sulphur's sharp grains alone have strength to cure. c. With qualification indicating colour, form, state, origin, etc.: see the qualifying words, and quots. below. virgin sulphur, native sulphur in the form of transparent amber-coloured crystals. volcanic sulphur, native sulphur in opaque, lemon-yellow, crystalline masses. sulphur of ivy, corruption of sulphur vivum n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [noun] > native sulphur sulphur vif?a1425 sulphur vivum1651 virgin sulphur1668 sulphur of ivy1867 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 323, ij unces of bothe kindes of Sulphur or brimstone, that is of the quik and dead. 1590 Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. 13 That divelish yron Engin,..With windy Nitre and quick Sulphur fraught. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 235 Sulphur Virgineum..Virgin Sulphur. 1725 Family Dict. (at cited word), There are two sorts, one of which is call'd Live Sulphur, and the other Common or Yellow Sulphur. Live or Quick Sulphur is a grey, fat, clayey, inflammable Matter. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), It is particularly call'd Fossil, or Mineral Sulphur, to distinguish it from the Sulphur of Metals, or of the Philosophers. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word), The green native sulphur. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word), The red native sulphur. 1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 199/1 Under the names of Black Sulphur, or Sulphur vivum (commonly inquired for at the chemist's under the title of Sulphur of Ivy). 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 62/1 Such pyrites sulphur is usually contaminated with arsenic. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 62/2 Commercial sulphur forms yellow crystals. d. †acid of sulphur, sulphuric acid; †balm of sulphur, †magistery of sulphur, milk of sulphur; †oil of sulphur, ? sulphuric acid; †salt of sulphur, ? potassium sulphate ‘impregnated’ with sulphuric oxide; †spirit of sulphur, sulphuric oxide.See also alcohol n. 2, balsam n. 2b, flower n. 2c, liver n.¹ 5, milk n.¹ 5c, ruby n.¹ 3b. ΚΠ 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (ed. 5) (at cited word), Flower of Sulphur, the purest of the Sulphur, that sticks to the Head of the Alembic, in sublimation by Fire. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Salt of Sulphur, a Preparation in Chymistry, improperly so called, since it is only a Sal Polychrestum impregnated with Spirit of Sulphur, and then reduced to an Acid Salt by Evaporation of all the Moisture. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) Spirit of Sulphur..is commonly call'd Oil of Sulphur per Campanam, from the Vessel's Shape, being like a Glass-bell, in which it is usually drawn. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), Magistery, or Balm, or Milk of Sulphur, is Sulphur dissolved in a sufficient Quantity of Water, with Salt of Tartar. 1744 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 1 The volatile Acid of Sulphur. †e. pl. Masses or deposits of native sulphur. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > of sulphur sulphur1697 1697 Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 The Founts where living Sulphurs boyl. View more context for this quotation 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 ii. 78/1 The inside of the crater, which is incrusted with salts and sulphurs like that of Vesuvius. f. The colour of sulphur, a greenish-yellow. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow gullnessa1300 butter colour1629 wheat-colour1711 straw colour1737 jonquil1791 straw-yellow1794 straw1799 wax-yellow1805 sulphur-yellow1816 wax-colour1854 daffodil1855 sulphur-colour1866 sherry colour1871 tea rose1872 mastic1890 wheat1915 sulphur1924 straw-gold1963 buttermilk1977 1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin ii. 32 Panthers' eyes..Flashed their pale sulphur on the sunless air. 1963 Listener 10 Jan. 84/2, I don't like the colours, especially the Ribena, pillarbox, scrofula, and sulphur. 2. a. Alchemy. One of the supposed ultimate elements of all material substances. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [noun] > spirit sulphura1393 mercurya1456 azoth1477 a1393 Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2481 The quikselver..Is ferst of thilke fowre named Of Spiritz,..And the spirit which is secounde In Sal Armoniak is founde; The thridde spirit Sulphur is. ?c1585 J. Hester tr. Paracelsus Exper. & Cures C 8, These three mercurie, Salt and Sulphur can not bee one without another. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E^v, Where it [sc. matter] retaines more of the humid fatnesse, It turnes to Sulphur, or to Quick-siluer. View more context for this quotation 1652 Liber Patris Sapientiæ in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 197 Some say that of Sulphur and Mercury all Bodyes minerall are made. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 73 Sulpher is nothing else than pure fire hid in the Mercury. 1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor ii. 121 All things do consist of Salt, Sulphur and Mercury. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis i. i. 8 Sulphur or Oil is very soft and unctious, and the lightest part of Bodies next to Spirit. 1723 J. Clarke tr. J. Rohault Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xx. 109 Hence they conclude, that these five Substances, viz. Mercury, Phlegm, Sulphur, Salt and Caput mortuum..are the only and the true Elements of all..mixed Bodies. 1894 Muir Alch. Ess. & Chem. El. 12. b. fig. ΚΠ 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 45 Melt not the golden Sulphur of your hart In following stil this fond and fruitlesse art. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 20 He that,..swelting at the Furnace, fineth bright Our soules dire sulphar. 1613 G. Chapman Revenge Bussy d'Ambois v. sig. I3^v, Her vnmatched spirit Can iudge of spirits, that haue her sulphure in them. †3. A compound of sulphur; esp. a sulphide. Obs. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [noun] > compounds > sulphides sulphura1500 sulphure1794 sulphide1836 sulphur acid1836 a1500 (?1471) G. Ripley Epist. Edward IV (Ashm.) f. 103, The philosopher spekith also..Of dyuers sulphurs. 1670 D. Cable tr. B. Valentinus Of Nat. & Supernat. Things 113 The Sulphur of Iron is found in the Ruby, the Sulphur of Venus in the Emerald. 1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets i. 33 Make also a Sulphur of the said Metals. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Golden Sulphur of Antimony, is made by boiling the Dross arising in the making of Regulus of Antimony in a little more than its weight of common Water..for about half an Hour, and then straining the Liquor, there is Vinegar poured upon it; on which a Reddish or Gold-colour Powder will precipitate. 1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 208/1 Golden sulphur of antimony, golden yellow, is the hydro-sulphuret of antimony. 1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 39/1 The white sulphur of the alchemists. 4. †a. Applied to thunder and lightning, a discharge of gunpowder, etc. Obs. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun] peal1535 thud1535 bouncing1598 ran-tan1607 sulphur?1611 bursta1616 stound1627 randana1661 break1751 flare1815 slam-banging1823 bang1854 spang1883 whoomph1891 ka-boom1965 zap1984 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] sulphur?1611 artillerya1616 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > of cannon > discharge of cannon sulphur?1611 mitraille1791 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiv. 346 His [sc. Jove's] sulphure casting with the blow, a strong, vnsauoury smoke. ?1614 W. Drummond Canon in Poems When first the Canon..Against the Heauen her roaring Sulphure shote. a1616 Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iii. 153 To teare with Thunder the wide Cheekes a' th' Ayre, And yet to change [? read charge] thy Sulphure with a Boult That should but riue an Oake. a1616 Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 240 The Gods throw stones of sulpher on me. View more context for this quotation b. Applied popularly to minerals containing sulphur or supposed to be sulphurous. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > [noun] > other general types fluor1610 sulphur1799 amygdule1877 heavy mineral1893 fem1902 sal1902 stress mineral1913 opaque1960 1799 Mushet in Philos. Mag. 4 381 (note) , When super~carbonated crude iron is run from the furnace, it is frequently covered with a scurf, which..is found to be a coating of plumbago..: this substance is universally denominated sulphur and..we say that the iron is sulphury. 1872 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms 424 The term sulphur is altogether erroneously given to bituminous rocks occurring in Kentucky and Tennessee, even when no sulphur is present. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 9 IX. 184 Sulphur, iron pyrites. †c. A volcano. Obs. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > volcanic formations > [noun] > volcanic vent chimneyc1374 vent1604 firepit1651 spiraculum1670 spiracle1671 solfatara1764 sulphur1764 volcanic crater1776 fumarole1811 air volcano1814 mud volcano1816 salse1831 blowhole1858 pipe1877 soufrière1879 bocca1881 mofette1887 pan1888 blowing-cone1895 smoke-hole1899 fault-vent1903 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 74 (note) Volcanoes are called sulphurs, or solfaterres, in the West-Indies. d. Mining (local). Carburetted hydrogen, fire-damp. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > explosive gas in mines dampa1592 firedamp1662 fire1672 wildfire1672 fulminating damp1675 dirt1831 sulphur1851 stifle1886 1851 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham (ed. 2) 53 Sulphur, a common expression among old miners for fire-damp. 1869 Eng. Mech. 3 Dec. 276/1. e. vegetable sulphur: see vegetable sulphur n. at vegetable adj. Special uses. 5. ellipt. a. = sulphur butterfly n. at Compounds 3(a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > tinea sulphurella (sulphur) sulphur1832 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Pieridae > genus Colias > member of yellow1794 clouded yellow butterfly1827 sulphur1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 2 The Clouded Sulphur (Colias Euprome, Stephens). 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 223 The Sulphur (Tinea sulphurella, Haworth) appears in November. 1891 B. G. Johns Among Butterflies 111 A yellow butterfly which he at first took to be a common Sulphur. 1902 W. J. Holland Butterfly Bk. 285 Genus Catopsilia..(The Great Sulphurs). 1902 W. J. Holland Butterfly Bk. 289 Genus Colias..(The Sulphurs). 1902 W. J. Holland Butterfly Bk. 294 Genus Terias..(The Small Sulphurs). b. = sulphur-headed cauliflower, see sulphur-headed adj. at Compounds 3(b). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [noun] > cauliflower cauliflower1597 sulphur1842 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > cauliflower flowery cole1578 cauliflower1597 sulphur1842 Romanesco1982 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 626 The late sulphur, sown at the same time, will come into use during April and May. c. = sulphur-cast n., sulphur-impression n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > plaster, wax, etc. ectype1662 plaster cast1773 electrotype1840 sulphur-impression1840 voltatype1842 sulphur1867 squeeze1882 sulphur-cast1909 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. viii. 240 Helena and her young companions now came into the room, bringing with them the sulphurs at which they had been looking. 1867 Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) III. 857 Sulphurs, impressions taken by the goldsmiths of the sixteenth century from the engravings executed on plate, paxes, &c., and which they obtained by spreading a layer of melted sulphur on the face of the plate. 6. colloq. or slang. Pungent talk, ‘sulphurous’ language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > mordancy > pungent remark, writing, or language cutter1688 pepperer1712 sulphur1897 1897 Daily News 31 Aug. 5/7 Doing nothing but sit round and talk sulphur about the new tariff. 1906 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Jan. 1 By putting as much sulphur as possible into his notorious election address. †7. as adj. Sulphureous, sulphurous. Obs. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > relating to sulphur or fire of hell sulphurious1560 sulphur1594 sulphureala1604 sulphurous1604 sulphurated1609 sulphury1630 sulphureous1644 1594 Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido ii. i, Came Hector's ghost, With ashy visage, blueish sulphur eyes. 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E3, Stir angry Nemesis the happie helme, That with the sulphur battels of your rage, The English Fleete may be disperst and sunke. View more context for this quotation 1899 Daily News 7 Oct. 8/5 White or sulphur-chain-stitch. Compounds C1. a. Simple attrib. (a) Of, pertaining to, consisting of, or containing sulphur. sulphur ball n. ΚΠ 1590 Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H2^v, As if Bellona, Goddesse of the war Threw naked swords and sulphur bals of fire. sulphur bed n. ΚΠ 1878 Times* 10 May 4/3 There are..three great sulphur beds [in the land of Midian]. sulphur cure n. ΚΠ 1868 Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric.* (1869) 571 The sulphur-cure for the oïdium, the most formidable disease that attacks the vine. sulphur deposit n. ΚΠ 1911 Encycl. Brit.* XXVI. 61/1 The sulphur-deposits of Sicily. sulphur dust n. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory* (1905) iii. xvi. 92/1 Little balls made vp of powder wett, and rowled in sulphur dust. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl.* at Sulphur, Sulphur-Dust well sifted. sulphur flake n. ΚΠ 1820 Shelley Vision of Sea in Prometheus Unbound 175 Like sulphur-flakes hurl'd from a mine of pale fire. sulphur flame n. ΚΠ 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag.* iii. sig. G3^v, Vpon a sulpher flame: Your selues shall finde Lorenzo bathing him, In boyling lead. 1856 Buckton & Hofmann in Q. Jrnl. Chem. Soc.* IX. 251 The black residue burns with a sulphur-flame. sulphur fume n. ΚΠ 1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 744/1 There is..nothing new in applying sulphur-fumes..as a disinfectant. 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments* (Arnold & Sons) 287 Sulphur Fumes Apparatus (Adams's), for diphtheria. sulphur fumigation n. ΚΠ 1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 665 Sulphur lotions or sulphur fumigations may be substituted. sulphur hill n. ΚΠ 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 403 This Grotto..standeth on the side and root of a sulphure hill. sulphur mine n. ΚΠ 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks.* i. iii. 86 Streames, distilling through the Sulphur Mines. 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana* 116 Grotta di cane..is nothing else but such a damp (continued by the neighbourhood of certain Sulphur-mines). 1828 R. Duppa Trav. Italy 143 The town [of Siculiana] derives considerable advantages from sulphur mines. sulphur ore n. sulphur salt n. ΚΠ 1675 W. Simpson Sulphur-bath Knarsb. 4 The Salt separated from the Sulphur-water, being put into boyling Milk, will make it shil into Curds and Whey;..we..found the Sulphur Salt to cause a speedy separation. sulphur soap n. ΚΠ 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med.* VIII. 610 The patient may be washed with sulphur soap, or with sulphur and tar soap. sulphur spa n. ΚΠ 1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland* vii. 45 Towards the Borders of Northumberland, is a Sulphur-Spaw. sulphur stick n. ΚΠ 1868 Chambers's Encycl.* X. 744/1 A piece of sulphur~stick. sulphur vein n. ΚΠ 1723 R. Blackmore Alfred* v. 150 Naphtha and Sulphur-Veins, that kindled rage. sulphur water n. ΚΠ 1665 in Verney Mem.* (1907) II. 243 The first inst we arrived att the nasty Spaw, and have now began to drinke the horid sulfer watter. 1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer.* 258 A stream of sulphur-water. sulphur well n. ΚΠ 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw (title-page), The Stinking, or Sulphur Well. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chymica* ii. 142 The Sulphur Well at Knarsborough. 1873 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 26 1090 Two of the most noted Harrogate Spas, viz., the ‘Old Sulphur Well’ and the ‘Chloride of Iron Spa’. (b) In medicinal preparations. sulphur electuary n. ΚΠ 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxx. 420, I have..seen very good effects from a perseverance in the use of the sulphur electuary. sulphur lotion n. sulphur lozenge n. ΚΠ 1844 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med.* (ed. 2) 377/1 Sulphur lozenges..used in asthma and in hæmorrhoïds. sulphur ointment n. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med.* IV. 641 The simplest..cure is to be obtained by the sulphur ointment. sulphur tablet n. b. In chemical terms. sulphur atom n. ΚΠ 1911 Encycl. Brit.* XXVI. 64/1 The junction of one ethyl group with a sulphur atom in the second salt. sulphur base n. sulphur compound n. ΚΠ 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.* III. i. 36 Sulphur Compound. sulphur dioxide n. ΚΠ 1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem.* (new ed.) xii. 126 Sulphur [1866 Sulphuric] Dioxide, or Sulphurous Acid. sulphur group n. ΚΠ 1884 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict.* (at cited word), *Sulphur group, the elementary substances sulphur, selenium, and tellurium; all having a strong attraction for oxygen. sulphur pyrites n. sulphur series n. ΚΠ 1856 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. II. 565 Sulphurous acid is..regarded as the starting point of several combinations belonging to the sulphur series. sulphur trioxide n. ΚΠ 1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem.* (new ed.) xiii. 129 Sulphur [1866 Sulphuric] Trioxide, or Sulphuric Anhydride. sulphur vapour n. ΚΠ 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem.* 164 The density of..sulphur-vapour. c. Objective and instrumental. (a)* sulphur-bearing adj. ΚΠ 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 61/2 Sulphur-bearing Miocene rocks. sulphur-containing adj. ΚΠ 1911 Encycl. Brit.* XXVI. 64/2 A group of sulphur-containing acids of general formula H₂S_nO₆. sulphur-flaming adj. ΚΠ 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs* sig. B7^v, On flintie Etnaes sulphur-flaming mountaines. sulphur-headed adj. ΚΠ 1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner* xvii. 178 The wooden, sulphur-headed matches supplied by the café. sulphur-impregnated adj. ΚΠ 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn* II. lvii. 243 The pale sulphur-impregnated waters of the river Albula. sulphur-scented adj. ΚΠ 1869 A. J. Wilson Vashti* vi, Some red-liveried, sulphur-scented imp of Abaddon. sulphur-smoking adj. ΚΠ 1628 W. Mure Doomesday* 128 in Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 167 Hell's sulphure-smoking throat. sulphur-tipped adj. ΚΠ 1743 Pope Dunciad* (rev. ed.) i. 235 Ye shall not..sulphur-tipt, emblaze an Ale-house fire. (b)* sulphur-roast v. ΚΠ 1802 S. T. Coleridge Let. to R. Southey 25 Dec. The Devil sulphur-roast them! C2.* Special combs. sulphur acid n. an old name for sulphides of electronegative metals, as arsenic, antimony. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [noun] > compounds > sulphides sulphura1500 sulphure1794 sulphide1836 sulphur acid1836 1836 T. Thomson Outl. Mineral. II. 507 The compounds which it [sc. sulphur] forms with arsenic and antimony..constitute sulphur acids. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem.* V. 643 Sulphur-acids, or Sulphanhydrides. sulphur alcohol n. a compound of the nature of an alcohol in which sulphur replaces oxygen. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [noun] > compounds > miscellaneous others foam of nitre1538 hepar1796 oxysulphion1840 sulphocyanogen1841 sulphuryl1867 sulphion1868 sulphur alcohol1876 thio-ether1889 trisulphone1892 sulphydryl1901 sulphane1955 1876 [see sulphur ether n.]. sulphur bacterium n. Biol. any of the bacteria which derive their energy from the oxidation of sulphur or inorganic compounds of sulphur. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > bacterium > [noun] > types of vibrio1850 micrococcus1870 microzyme1870 Spirillum1875 mycothrix1876 leptothrix1877 Spirochaete1877 streptococcus1877 Actinomyces1879 frogspawn1880 schizophyte1880 schizomycetes1881 gonococcus1882 saprophile1882 vibrion1882 coccus1883 diplococcus1883 streptobacteria1883 Clostridium1884 actinomycetes1885 pneumococcus1885 macrococcus1887 staphylococcus1887 iron bacterium1888 Proteus1888 ferrobacterium1890 meningococcus1890 rhizobium1890 sulphobacteria1890 nitrobacterium1891 Streptothrix1891 sulphur bacterium1891 myxobacter1892 Myxococcus1892 tetracoccus1893 coli1894 Pasteurella1895 pyrotoxin1895 Gaertner1897 purple bacterium1897 myxobacterium1898 pseudomonas1899 thiobacteria1900 treponema1908 corynebacterium1909 mycobacterium1909 Salmonella1913 Neisseria1915 botulinum1916 rickettsia1916 leptospira1918 acetobacter1920 Brucella1920 pseudomonad1921 strep1927 enterobacterium1929 opportunist1937 eubacterium1939 agrobacterium1942 persister1944 Moraxella1948 enteric1956 streptomycete1956 leptospire1957 transformant1957 lysogen1958 listeria1961 C. difficile1962 yersinia1967 Campylobacter1971 cyanobacterium1973 coryneform1976 eubacterium1977 legionella1979 acetogen1982 C. diff.1990 acidophilous1996 1891 A. B. Griffiths Res. on Micro-organisms viii. 179 All belong to the class of ‘sulphur-bacteria’..—that is, bacteria which in the presence of free hydrogen-sulphide oxidize sulphur, forming sulphuric acid. 1939 F. E. Clements & V. E. Shelford Bio-Ecol.* iii. 101 Hydrogen sulphide is also acted upon by a remarkable group of sulphur bacteria. 1962 W. W. Umbreit Mod. Microbiol. xv. 276/2 There are three major types of photosynthetic bacteria. The first two of them, the thiorhodaceae and the chlorobacteriaceae, are sulfur bacteria. 1979 K. Arms & P. S. Camp Biol. x. 165 Purple and green sulfur bacteria (Thiorhodaceae) use hydrogen gas and hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) as hydrogen donors. sulphur bath n. †(a) a sulphur-spring; (b) a bath to which flowers of sulphur have been added, used in the treatment of skin diseases. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > sulphur sulphur bath1675 sulphur-spring1785 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > lotion or bath > [noun] > specific lyea700 eye-water?1593 mouth-water1598 arquebusade1739 eye lotion1797 black wash1805 mouthwash1806 bloodbath1834 starch bath1836 sulphur bath1843 whitewash1897 wax bath1916 1675 W. Simpson (title) A Discourse of the Sulphur-Bath at Knarsbrough in York-Shire. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med.* xxviii. 355 By the use of sulphur baths,..all were greatly improved. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. iii. 21 The sulphur baths of Sinuessa. sulphur-cast n. = sulphur-impression n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > plaster, wax, etc. ectype1662 plaster cast1773 electrotype1840 sulphur-impression1840 voltatype1842 sulphur1867 squeeze1882 sulphur-cast1909 1909 W. Le Queux House of Whispers xxviii. (1913) 195 Sulphur-casts of seals recently acquired by that institution. sulphur-colour adj. = sulphur-yellow* n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow gullnessa1300 butter colour1629 wheat-colour1711 straw colour1737 jonquil1791 straw-yellow1794 straw1799 wax-yellow1805 sulphur-yellow1816 wax-colour1854 daffodil1855 sulphur-colour1866 sherry colour1871 tea rose1872 mastic1890 wheat1915 sulphur1924 straw-gold1963 buttermilk1977 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Sulphureus, sulphur-colour; a pale bright-yellow, with a mixture of white. 1897 Daily News* 24 Apr. 6/4 Sulphur-colour goes admirably with tan. sulphur-coloured adj. = sulphur-yellow n. and adj. ΘΚΠ 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 1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 480 A sulphur-coloured spot beneath each eye. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med.* VIII. 863 Sulphur-coloured scabs. sulphur cone n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts *Sulphur Cone, an electrical experiment and apparatus to prove the effect of separation of the contact of two bodies, occasioning them to show signs of electricity. sulphur cycle n. Ecol. the cycle of changes whereby sulphur compounds are interconverted between sulphates and hydrogen sulphide in the air and sulphates, sulphides, and sulphur in organisms and the soil. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > environment or habitat > [noun] > sulphur or nitrogen cycle nitrogen cycle1906 sulphur cycle1967 1967 New Scientist 9 Nov. 333/1 The continuation and evolution of life depends upon a stable eco-system. A characteristic of such a system is that cyclical transformations of the major biological elements take place within it—the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the sulphur cycle and so on. 1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol.* xxx. 745/2 Bacteria can carry out each of the processes in the sulfur cycle; bacteria and certain colorless blue-green algae are the only known living agents of the steps involving interconversions of inorganic forms of sulfur. 1977 I. M. Campbell Energy & Atmosphere viii. 289 More efficient dispersal of sulphur dioxide at source cannot be regarded as an acceptable long term solution, since that merely transfers the problem to another region or country, the problem intensified by the fact that the anthropogenic term in the sulphur cycle is of the same order of magnitude as the natural terms. sulphur ether n. a compound analogous to ether in which sulphur replaces oxygen. ΚΠ 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 553/1 Sulphur, Selenium, and Tellurium Alcohols and Ethers. sulphur-hued adj. = sulphur-yellow* n. and adj. ΚΠ 1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos vii. 172 Delicate sulphur-hued flowers. sulphur-impression n. an impression taken of a seal, medallion, etc. in a composition consisting of sulphur and wax. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > plaster, wax, etc. ectype1662 plaster cast1773 electrotype1840 sulphur-impression1840 voltatype1842 sulphur1867 squeeze1882 sulphur-cast1909 1840 R. Ellis Laws & Regul. Customs* IV. 154 Duties on..Sulphur Impressions, for every 100l value £5 0s. 0d. sulphur-match n. a lucifer match tipped with sulphur. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting wax tapera1398 match1519 brimstone match1594 card match1654 spunk1755 light1787 spill1821 lighter1828 candle-paper1829 fidibus1829 Promethean1829 sulphur-match1830 pipelight1842 candle-lighter1855 kitchen match1862 spiller1936 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ.* I. viii. 281 By means of burning sulphur matches in the casks. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul* II. ix. xxxvii. 163 They sold sulphur matches, and old clothes, and broken glass. sulphur-ore n. an ore which yields sulphur, e.g. iron pyrites. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > sulphur ore sory1601 sulphur-ore1681 sulphur-pyrites1796 1681 N. Grew Mvsævm Regalis Societatis iii. iii. ii. 345 Sulphur-Ore..if burnt..hath the scent of Brimstone. 1871 Jrnl. Chem. Soc.* 24 449 On the Roasting of Sulphur Ores, with a New Roasting Oven. sulphur print n. Metallurgy a print on photographic bromide paper showing the distribution of sulphur as sulphides in a steel surface with which it has been placed in contact. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > print showing distribution of sulphur sulphur print1912 1912 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 85 380, I have adopted a method which is virtually a modification of the well known method of obtaining a ‘sulphur print’. 1977 R. B. Ross Handbk. Metal Treatm.* 373 Chemical analysis and micro-examination..require laboratory equipment and skilled personnel, whereas the Sulphur print may be used in relatively unsophisticated conditions. sulphur-pyrites n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > sulphur ore sory1601 sulphur-ore1681 sulphur-pyrites1796 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 75 The compound of Sulphur and Iron, called Martial Pyrites, or, Sulphur Pyrites and often simply Pyrites. sulphur rain n. (see quot. 1882). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > with suspended particles or pollution red rain?1660 yellow rain1755 blood rain1772 acid rain1845 sulphur rain1882 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts sandarac1623 globulet1671 powder1672 bread1682 farina1721 pollen1723 father-dust1728 rough wax1744 yellow rain1755 dust1776 fovilla1793 anther dust1797 pollen mass1828 pollen tube1830 intextine1835 pollen grain1835 pollen granule1835 exine1839 exintine1839 intine1839 pollinium1849 sulphur shower1854 pollinic mass1857 pollen chamber1863 smoke1868 pollen sac1872 pollinarium1881 sulphur rain1882 pollinic chamber1885 perine1895 pollen content1926 sculpturing1943 monad1947 nexine1948 sexine1948 1882 H. Edmonds Elem. Bot.* 132 Often in Fir forests the pollen is given off into the air in such enormous quantities that it is washed down by the rain as a yellow powder, and is popularly known as sulphur rain. sulphur salt n. an old name for a salt produced by the combination of a ‘sulphur acid’ with another metallic base. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > sulphates or sulphites > other sulphates aluma1398 aphronitrea1398 white vitriol1676 oxysulphate1802 hyposulphate1819 sulphur salt1836 potash alum1837 hepar1866 kainite1868 kalinite1868 nickel sulphate1868 trisulphate1880 trisulphonate1892 thalline sulphate1899 1836 T. Thomson Outl. Mineral.* II. 507 Sulphur acids..have the property of combining with other metallic sulphurets as bases, and thus of forming what are called sulphur salts. sulphur shower n. = sulphur rain* n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts sandarac1623 globulet1671 powder1672 bread1682 farina1721 pollen1723 father-dust1728 rough wax1744 yellow rain1755 dust1776 fovilla1793 anther dust1797 pollen mass1828 pollen tube1830 intextine1835 pollen grain1835 pollen granule1835 exine1839 exintine1839 intine1839 pollinium1849 sulphur shower1854 pollinic mass1857 pollen chamber1863 smoke1868 pollen sac1872 pollinarium1881 sulphur rain1882 pollinic chamber1885 perine1895 pollen content1926 sculpturing1943 monad1947 nexine1948 sexine1948 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > shower > with pollen sulphur shower1854 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 340 The sulphur-like pollen of the pitch-pine soon covered the pond and the stones and rotten wood... This is the ‘sulphur showers’ we hear of. 1883 Evang. Mag.* July 311 The so~called ‘sulphur-showers’ often seen in pine forests. sulphur soap n. a medicinal soap containing elemental sulphur for use in treating skin complaints. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for skin diseases > mineral-derived sulphur soap1894 Thiosapiol1899 Soamin1908 succinol1913 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > soap > type of soap > specific hard soap?a1425 oatmeal soapa1525 spatarent soap1526 Castile soap1631 Naples soapa1739 yellow soap1762 honey soap1772 curd soap1780 primrose soap1796 palm soap1821 Gallipoli soap1822 Windsor soap1822 Windsor1836 Venice soap1842 scum-soap1852 sand-soap1855 lime soap1857 marine soap1857 sassafras soap1860 carbolic soap1863 sulphur soap1894 opopanax soap1897 primrose1899 rock1903 carbolic1907 Crazy Foam1965 1894 A. Watt Art of Soap-making xxi. 172 Sir H. Marsh's Sulphur Soap... A few drops of otto of roses are added to give the soap an agreeable fragrance. 1925 G. Martin Mod. Soap & Detergent Industry* II. ii. iv. 34 Sulphur soaps, when dissolved in water, slowly evolve sulphuretted hydrogen, which gives them an unpleasant smell. 1953 J. Davidsohn et al. Soap Manuf. I. xxii. 505 Sulfur soaps are frequently prepared in combination with beta-naphthol, tar, glycerine and camphor. sulphur-spring n. a spring containing compounds of sulphur or impregnated with sulphurous gases. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > sulphur sulphur bath1675 sulphur-spring1785 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 59 We are told of a Sulphur-spring on Howard's creek of Greenbriar. 1811 W. J. Hooker Jrnl. Tour Iceland* 195 We could not resist the present temptation of alighting from our horses, to visit one of the sulphur-springs that lay in our route. 1874 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 27 881 The Sulphur Springs of Trentschin-Teplitz. sulphur-tinted adj. = sulphur-yellow n. and adj. ΚΠ 1895 Daily News 2 Aug. 6/6 Sulphur~tinted nasturtiums. sulphur-tree n. a hard-wooded tree, Morinda lucida, found in West Central Africa and used for building purposes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > African shittima1382 citrus1555 cam-wood1699 jacaranda1753 kokerboom1774 quiver tree1789 geelhout1790 rooihout1790 yellowwood1790 mat-wood1792 assegai1793 assegai tree1793 hardpear1801 rooi els1801 argan1809 beaver-wood1810 mat tree1812 saffraan1819 salie1819 sneezewood1834 African teak1842 hyawaballi1851 sage-wood1854 mvule1858 til1858 yari-yari1858 cannibal stinkwood1859 kiaat1862 knobwood1862 milkwood1862 tryssil1862 sulphur-tree1863 khaya1864 cailcedra1866 flat-crown1868 umzimbeet1870 kuka1882 odum1887 iroko1890 opepe1891 Natal mahogany1904 muhimbi1906 obeche1906 agba1908 makoré1915 afara1920 agboin1920 abura1921 podo1922 afrormosia1923 guarea1936 Mansonia1936 dahoma1955 utile1956 1863 R. F. Burton Abeokuta* II. 77 The sulphur-tree..also called brimstone-tree. sulphur-weed n. = sulphurwort n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies swine's fennel?a1425 swine's finkle?a1450 hog's fennel1525 dog fennel1526 harstrang1562 mountain parsley1578 sow-fennel1578 sulphurwort1578 much good1597 rock parsley1597 milky parsley1640 brimstone-wort1678 marsh milkweed1787 milk parsley1787 sea sulphur-wort1807 sea sulphur-weed1850 sulphur-weed1850 sea hog's-fennel1855 1850 A. Pratt Common Things Sea-side* i. 67 The Sea Sulphur~weed. sulphur-work n. (also sulphur-works) a sulphur manufactory. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > others coal pitOE wireworks1598 alum works1617 copperas-worka1661 saltpetre house1683 nailery1802 railworks1863 lockworks1864 sulphur-work1870 tack-mill1884 pitch-boilery1885 rubber plant1886 soot house1957 1870 C. Kingsley At Last* ii, In 1836, two gentlemen of Antigua..set up sulphur works at the Souffrière of St. Lucia. sulphur-yellow n. and adj. (of) the pale-yellow colour characteristic of sulphur. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow gullnessa1300 butter colour1629 wheat-colour1711 straw colour1737 jonquil1791 straw-yellow1794 straw1799 wax-yellow1805 sulphur-yellow1816 wax-colour1854 daffodil1855 sulphur-colour1866 sherry colour1871 tea rose1872 mastic1890 wheat1915 sulphur1924 straw-gold1963 buttermilk1977 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 1816 Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool.* IX. ii. 381 Bunting of a blood-coloured rufous; beneath sulphur-yellow. 1896 W. F. Kirby Handbk. Lepidoptera* II. 209 Of a yellow colour, varying from light sulphur-yellow to deep orange. C3. attrib. passing into adj. (a) ‘Of the colour of sulphur, sulphur-coloured, sulphur-yellow’, chiefly in specific names of animals having sulphur-yellow colouring. sulphur butterfly n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Pieridae > genus Gonepteryx > gonepteryx rhamni (sulphur butterfly) brimstone butterfly1824 sulphur butterfly1879 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 207 Sulphur butterflies hover here early in the spring. 1891 B. G. Johns Among Butterflies* 98 The Brimstone or Sulphur butterfly. sulphur parakeet n. ΚΠ 1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 428 Sulphur Parrakeet. sulphur pearl n. ΚΠ 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit.* 152 The Sulphur Pearl (Margaritia palealis, Stephens). (b)* Esp. in parasynthetic comb. sulphur-bellied adj. ΚΠ 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 431 Myiodynastes luteiventris, Sulphur-bellied Striped Flycatcher. sulphur-breasted adj. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron.* 6 Feb. 3/3 The sulphur-breasted toucan. sulphur-crested adj. sulphur-headed adj. ΚΠ 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist* 626 Sulphur~headed [cauliflower], of which the best variety is the Portsmouth. (c)* sulphur-bottom n. (also sulphur-bottom whale) Sibbald's rorqual (see Sibbald n.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenopteridae > genus Balaenoptera (rorqual) > species musculus (blue whale) sulphur-bottom1782 blue whale1851 Sibbald1897 1782 ‘J. H. St. J. de Crèvecœur’ Lett. from Amer. Farmer vi. 169 The sulphur-bottom, river St. Laurence, ninety feet long. 1829 T. C. Haliburton Hist. & Statist. Acct. Nova Scotia* II. ix. 404 Fish-Whale Species. Sulphur Whale. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick* xxxii. 153 Adieu, Sulphur Bottom! a1860 J. W. Dawson in Borthwick's Br. Amer. Rar. 221 Another rorqual..is known from its yellow belly as the sulphur-whale. 1904 F. T. Bullen Creatures of Sea xiv. 177 A huge sulphur-bottom whale..which..attains a maximum length of one hundred and fifty feet. 1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. iv. 94 These blue whales are the great sulphur-bottoms. 1959 A. C. Hardy Open Sea II. xv. 280 It [sc. Sibbald's rorqual] has also been called the sulphur-bottom whale on account of a yellowish scum of diatoms which these whales usually carry when they first return to polar waters again after visiting warmer latitudes for breeding. sulphur cockatoo n. (also sulphur-crested cockatoo) a white cockatoo, Kakatoe galerita, with a yellow crest, native to Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > cockatoo > types of sulphur cockatoo1811 rose cockatoo1829 gang-gang1833 Leadbeater's cockatoo1848 galah1862 Major Mitchell1898 1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 480 Smaller Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Psittacus sulphureus. 1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns* 73 Did you ever hear a real sulphur cockatoo in its own woods, mister? 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 17 Sulphur-crested cockatoos sail down upon the red raiment of the tree. 1963 Times 8 June 14/3 Probably the most talkative..is one of the four sulphur-crested cockatoos. sulphur tuft n. a toadstool, Hypholoma fasciculare, with a yellow cap tinged with brown. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > other fungi bolet1526 boletus1601 byssus1753 fly-fungus1822 turban-top1828 stilbid1846 empusa1856 Scotch bonnet1861 wolf's-milk1861 lizard's herb1866 fairy ring1870 Malta fungus1870 flowers of tan1882 mycorrhiza1886 fumago1887 milky cap1887 moss-gold1887 oomycete1889 razor strop fungus1893 club-fungusa1909 sulphur tuft1909 bolete1914 old man of the woods1972 1909 E. W. Swanton Fungi 115 ‘Sulphur-tuft’... Taste intensely bitter. Poisonous. 1979 Country Life* 25 Oct. 1423/1 The fruiting bodies of sulphur tuft..also grow on tree stumps. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online November 2010). sulphursulfurv. /ˈsʌlfə(r)/ Etymology: < sulphur n. Compare French soufrer, Dutch solferen, sulferen. In Urquhart's Rabelais (1653) i. xvii. ‘sulfured, hopary-mated, moiled and bepist’ renders folfré et habaliné of the original. Urquhart's copy of the French no doubt had solfré, the reading of the first ed., and app. the source also of Cotgrave's solfié (glossed ‘solfaed; also, distempered’). Modern editors explain folfré as = made mad. 1. trans. To fumigate with burning sulphur, e.g. for the purpose of bleaching goods, disinfecting, preventing fermentation in casks; to sprinkle (plants) with flowers of sulphur to prevent mould or the like; also, to put (wine) into casks that have been fumigated with sulphur. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > disinfect [verb (transitive)] > fumigate > sulphurize sulphur1760 sulphurize1856 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 363 When the stockings were perfectly new, or the black dipt afresh, and the white newly cleaned and sulphured. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. viii. 281 For the purpose of sulphuring wines. 1867 C. L. Bloxam Chem. 198 Casks for wine or beer are sulphured in order to prevent the action of any substance contained in the pores of the wood. 1883 J. Y. Stratton Hops & Hop-pickers 24 Sulphuring the hop is frequently used to destroy mould insects. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 608/1 Immediately after..they blossom the vines are sulphured, to keep off the Oidium. 2. To treat with sulphur waters. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > treat hydropathically [verb (transitive)] > treat with sulphur waters sulphur1837 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. I. 255 The season had not begun, few having been yet sufficiently sulphured and bathed elsewhere to come here to be braced. 3. To fasten firmly with molten sulphur. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > set or fasten with specific material yeta1387 run1657 sulphur1867 1867 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 624/1 An iron hook sulphured into a small glass flask. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online November 2010). > see also also refers to : sulphur-sulfur-comb. form < n.a1393v.1760 see also
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