Definition of Quickselver
Quick"sil`ver (?), n. [Quick
living + silver; -- so called from its fluidity; cf. G.
quecksilber, L. argentum vivum. See Quick,
a.] (Chem.) The metal mercury; -- so
called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial
horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver
water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial
silvering; quick water.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- the metal mercury
- The rogue fled from me like quicksilver - Shakespeare, Henry IV part 2, II-iv
- 1820: Thou hast quicksilver in the veins of thee to a certainty. - Walter Scott, The Abbot
- (colloquial) an amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering
- unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial
- to overlay with quicksilver
- to treat with quicksilver
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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