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Definition of Brimstone
1. Noun. An old name for sulfur.
Definition of Brimstone
1. n. Sulphur; See Sulphur.
2. a. Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches.
Definition of Brimstone
1. Adjective. Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell. ¹
2. Noun. Sulphur. ¹
3. Noun. The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation. ¹
4. Noun. (archaic) Used ''attributively'' as an intensifier in exclamations. ¹
5. Noun. The butterfly ''Gonepteryx rhamni'' of the Pieridae family. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brimstone
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Brimstone
1. Synonym: sulfur. Origin: A.S. Brinnan, to burn (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brimstone
Literary usage of Brimstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"ANALYSIS OF brimstone The impurities in brimstone are seldom more than a few
tenths per ... One hundred grams of the brimstone are extracted with hot water, ..."
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