VITRIOL
\vˈɪtɹiːəl], \vˈɪtɹiːəl], \v_ˈɪ_t_ɹ_iː__ə_l]\
Definitions of VITRIOL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
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(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
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subject to bitter verbal abuse
By Princeton University
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abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
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(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
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subject to bitter verbal abuse
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To dip in dilute sulphuric acid; to pickle.
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A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
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Sulphuric acid; - called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
By Oddity Software
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To dip in dilute sulphuric acid; to pickle.
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A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
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Sulphuric acid; - called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
By Noah Webster.
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A sulphate of copper, iron, or zinc, variously called blue vitriol (from copper), green vitriol (from iron), white vitriol (from zinc); sulphuric acid: commonly called oil of vitriol.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The popular name of sulphuric acid: a soluble sulphate of a metal, green vitriol-sulphate of iron, blue vitriol-sulphate of copper, white vitriol-sulphate of zinc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A name given to certain combinations of sulphur and oxygen, or of these with the metals. Oil of vitriol, sulphuric acid. Green vitriol, copperas or green sulphate of iron. Red vitriol, or vitriol of Mars, a red sulphate of iron. Blue vitriol, sulphate of copper. White vitriol, a white sulphate of zinc. Cobalt vitriol, a sulphate of cobalt.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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