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
- 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
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe