♄ine

A form of saturnine — Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy.

Meanings

adjective
  1. abbreviationalchemyAbbreviation of saturnine.

    And hence sayth he mayst thou draw a great secret that the water of ♄ine antimony ought to be ☿all & white, &c.

    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 260
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