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v. t.
To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
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A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
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A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
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Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
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A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.
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Quicksilver; mercury.
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The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
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Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.
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A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold.
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To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
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A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
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Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
v. t.
To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
p. a.
Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.
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A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.
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The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
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The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
v. i.
To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.
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Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
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A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
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