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- English Word Mercurous Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.
- English Word Mercury Definition A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
- English Word Mercury Definition A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
- English Word Mercury Definition One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
- English Word Mercury Definition A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
- English Word Mercury Definition Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
- English Word Mercury Definition A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
- English Word Mercury Definition To wash with a preparation of mercury.
- English Word Mercy Definition Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
- English Word Mercy Definition Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.
- English Word Mercy Definition Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
- English Word Mercy Definition A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.
- English Word Merd Definition Ordure; dung.
- English Word Mere Definition A pool or lake.
- English Word Mere Definition A boundary.
- English Word Mere Definition To divide, limit, or bound.
- English Word Mere Definition A mare.
- English Word Mere Definition Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
- English Word Mere Definition Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
- English Word Merely Definition Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.