☿

noun

Scribal abbreviation of quicksilver or mercury

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noun☿ (plural ☿es)

plural ☿es

  1. alchemyScribal abbreviation of quicksilver or mercury

    Edward he sayth that the Philosophers doe write of two 🜍rs & to them two ☿es joyned, & these are Red most pure & white.

    c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 250

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