n. A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, sometimes approaching red.
n. The orpine.
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n. A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
n. The orpine.
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n. perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
Word Usage
""Fourthly, that the first of these liquors in a mixture of the alkali and igneous parts of quick-lime with the sulphureous substance of arsenick; for the orpin is a sort of arsenick, as I said before."