Mercury

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A silvery-coloured, metallic chemical element (symbol Hg) with the atomic number 80; it is liquid at room temperature, and toxic.

   “When therfore they perceaue a ſufficient quantitie of golde thus remaynynge on the tables, they gather it with diligence and put it in a tray or great ſhallowe dyſſhe of wod […] they beate or mixte (or amalgame it as they caule it) with Mercurie or quickſyluer, […]”

2. isim Preceded by the: mercury (noun sense 1.1) as used in the column of a barometer or thermometer, its fall or rise thus indicating the decrease or increase of ambient pressure or temperature.

   “The mercury there has averaged 37.6°C, 2.3°C above the February norm.”

3. isim A preparation containing mercury (noun sense 1.1), especially calomel (mercurous chloride) or corrosive sublimate (mercuric chloride), formerly used as a medicine to treat syphilis, etc.
4. isim One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals.
5. isim Liveliness, volatility.

   “Religion thou haſt none: thy Mercury / Has paſs'd though every Sect, or theirs through Thee.”

6. isim An annual plant, now generally called annual mercury (Mercurialis annua), chiefly native to central and southern Europe which was formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury, herb mercury.

   “The herbe which is cõmunely [communely, i.e., commonly] called in engliſhe mercury hath nothyng to do wyth mercurialis, whereof I ſpake nowe. Let the Poticaries vſe thys mercury and let the commune mercury alone.”

7. isim Any of several plants of the genus Mercurialis; specifically (obsolete), dog's mercury or wild mercury (Mercurialis perennis).

   “Phyllon […] may be Engliſhed Barons Mercury or Phyllon, or Boyes Mercury or Phyllõ [Phyllon]. And the female is called […] in Engliſh Gyrles Phyllon or Mercury, Daughters Phyllon, or Mayden Mercury.”

8. isim Allgood or Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus), a species of goosefoot native to central and southern Europe formerly cultivated as a vegetable but now generally regarded as a weed; English mercury, false mercury (obsolete).

   “This herbe is called […] in Engliſh, Good Henry, and Algood: of ſome it is taken for Mercurie.”

9. isim Poison ivy or poison oak (genus Toxicodendron, especially the eastern poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) or Atlantic poison oak (Toxicodendron pubescens)).
10. fiil To apply or coat (something) with mercury (noun sense 1.1) or a preparation containing mercury.

    “In proceeding to elucidate my process, I will divide it into six parts, the first three of which will be confined to plate cleaning; the fourth to coating with chemicals; the fifth to mercurying and chemicals, and the sixth to finishing with general remarks.”

11. fiil to apply to (the face) a preparation of mercury to beautify it

    “[…] I knovv, you ha' not a finger, but is as long as my quiuer (couſin Mercvrie) vvhen you pleaſe to extend it. […] Alas, your palmes (Ivpiter knovves) they are as tender as the foot of a foundred nagge, or a ladies face nevv mercuried, the'ile [they'll] touch nothing.”

12. fiil To administer to (someone) a medicine containing mercury.
13. özel isim The first planet in the Solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿.

    “Thou, first of the children of men, art come to Mercury, where thou and I will journey up and down for a season to show thee the lands and oceans, the forests, plains, and ancient mountains, cities and palaces of this world, Mercury, and the doings of them that dwell therein.”

14. özel isim The Roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger, wearing winged sandals; the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes.
15. özel isim Ellipsis of Mercury Drug.
16. isim Quicksilver, mercury. (No longer capitalized, as the name of the metal is no longer recognized as that of the planet.)
17. isim A newsboy, a messenger.
18. isim A footman.

    “Enter Mr. Tulkinghorn, followed by Mercuries with lamps and candles.”

19. isim Someone who carries messages between lovers; a go-between.

    “His Mercury having made his observations, reported, that there was no body in the coach but Mrs. Hornbeck and an elderly woman, who had all the air of a duenna, and that the servant was not the same footman who had attended them in France.”

20. isim A newspaper.

    “No allusion to it is to be found in the monthly Mercuries.”