|noun|
1.A plant of a genus which includes dog’s mercury.
2.Mercury or one of its compounds used medicinally, especially to treat syphilis.
‘one wonders how many unfortunates owed their demise to his prescription of _mercury_ to clarify the spleen’
‘In the late 15th century, the famous alchemist Paracelsus began to prescribe _mercury_ to treat syphilis.’
3.The chemical element of atomic number 80, a heavy silvery-white metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures.
‘Combined with silver, _mercury_ , copper and antimony, however, gold is to be found finely distributed.’
‘The wetlands dense foliage has the ability to handle heavy metals, like _mercury_ , zinc, nickel and copper.’
4.The column of mercury in a thermometer or barometer, or its height as indicating atmospheric temperature or pressure.
‘coastal sunshine sends _mercury_ soaring’
‘The _mercury_ was rising in the city (around 37 degrees Celsius) during the past one week and this had become the talk of the town.’
|proper noun|
1.A small planet that is the closest to the sun in the solar system, sometimes visible to the naked eye just after sunset.
2.The Roman god of eloquence, skill, trading, and thieving, herald and messenger of the gods, who was identified with Hermes.
3.Used in names of newspapers and journals.
‘the Leicester _Mercury_ ’
‘The prosaic answer is that the _Mercury_ takes itself very seriously indeed.’
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|noun|
‘one wonders how many unfortunates owed their demise to his prescription of _mercury_ to clarify the spleen’
