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noun

Cinnabar n.

(Min.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.

Cinnabar Graecorum. (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood.

Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire.

Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to the statues and other representations of the gods. He would find that the modern statues by famous artists were beautiful anthropomorphic works in marble or in gold and ivory. It is true that the faces of the ancient gilded Dionysi at Corinth were smudged all over with cinnabar, like fetish-stones in India or Africa.(1) As a rule, however, the statues of historic times were beautiful representations of kindly and gracious beings. The older works were stiff and rigid images, with the lips screwed into an unmeaning ...

— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang

... far (But also to the owls the visions change)— No dawn is like the next, and nothing sings Of sameness—very hours have wings And leave no word of whose hand touched the range Of Kara Dagh with opal and with cinnabar. Aye-yee, aye-yah! ...

— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... invariably saw on it the impression of its owner's spread hand in outline, or else his signature in blue paint. The favourite colours in house decoration—where any were noticeable—were blue and a dirty cinnabar red. ...

— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... for speculation that had offered." As Mrs. Randolph turned away with a slight shrug of the shoulders, the major continued: "But you haven't heard all! That opportunity was the securing of a half interest in a cinnabar lode in Sonora, which has already gone up a hundred thousand dollars in his hands! By Jove! a man can afford to drop a little social ceremony on those terms—eh, Josephine?" he ...

— A Sappho of Green Springs • Bret Harte

... Galipano and the Cerro de Avila. This banded magnetic iron-ore is found also in the Sierra Nevada of Merida. Between the two peaks of the Silla, angular fragments of cellular quartz are found, covered with red oxide of iron. They do not act on the needle. This oxide is of a cinnabar-red colour.) ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt

Words linked to "Cinnabar" : mineral, Callimorpha, hg, vermilion, Callimorpha jacobeae, arctiid moth, genus Callimorpha, quicksilver, vermillion, atomic number 80, arctiid, Chinese-red, cinnabar moth, mercury