mercury
/ˈmɝ.kjə.ɹi/ verb C2- To apply or coat (something) with mercury (noun sense 1) or a preparation containing mercury.
- To administer to (someone) a medicine containing mercury.
He/she/it mercuries · Past mercuried · Past participle mercuried · -ing form mercurying
Verb forms
- Base form
- mercury
- He/she/it
- mercuries
- Past
- mercuried
- Past participle
- mercuried
- -ing form
- mercurying
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The detection of types is one of the most elementary branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime, though I confess that once when I was very young I confused the Leeds Mercury with the Western Morning News.
The patron of La Jeune Amélie proposed as a place of landing the Island of Monte Cristo, which being completely deserted, and having neither soldiers nor revenue officers, seemed to have been placed in the midst of the ocean since the time of the heathen Olympus by Mercury, the god of merchants and robbers, classes of mankind which we in modern times have separated if not made distinct, but which antiquity appears to have included in the same category.
For three days the mercury had been five or six degrees below freezing and the steps were covered with ice.
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