"Paring and clipping, and dipping the hoof in blue vitriol and vinegar, or rubbing it on, as the English shepherds do.

Put a drop of strong tea, either green or bohea, but chiefly the former, on the blade of a knife, though it is not corrosive, in the same manner as vitriol, yet there appears to be a corrosive quality in it, very different from that of fruit, which stains the knife.

Our friend Edmund Burke, who by this time had received some pretty severe strokes from Dr. Johnson, on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks, upon my repeating this passage to him, exclaimed 'Oil of vitriol !'

Sardanapalus drunk with vitriol!

Vitriol and the revolveran outburst of rage, culminating in a "short, sharp shock"these belong, if you will, to modern life.

"Oh no, but vitriol, it burns awful and is very dangerous," said the old lady.

He took down a jar marked Epsom salts, and found it full of Welsh snuff; the next, which was labelled cinnamon, contained blue vitriol.

Anguish and rage in her heart were like vitriol dashed on a raw wound.

The way ran through disused pasture land which was to be irrigated, enriched, and grown with alfalfa; and at a turn in the road he came upon a sight which flashed to his eyes like a spurt of vitriol.

Voltaire says, in his Essay on History, that rubbing the hand for a long time with spirit of vitriol and alum, with the juice of an onion, is stated to render it capable of enduring hot water without injury.

Not many trees would grow well, if watered daily (let us say) with vitriol.

They rolled up towards us, thirty or forty feet in heightdark gray masses, changing to a beautiful vitriol tint, wherever the light struck through their countless and changing crests.

"I reckon he hates me," thought Hiram, pouring vitriol into his own wounds, "and I reckon he's got good cause to.

And the vitriol madness flushes up in the ruffian's head, Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife, While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread, And the spirit of murder works in the very means of life.

Healy and his iron-handed, vitriol-tongued crew beat them back with the ferocity of devilsand had the battalion cowed and whimpering, before the officers withdrew the men and arranged an orderly issue of rations.

For a woman who had been scornfully analyzed by Kate Wilkes (who really could be vitriol-tongued) and ordered away from Vina Nettleton's door like an untimely beggar, Mrs. Wordling looked remarkably well.

And Gervaise at once recognised the "vitriol" of the "Assommoir" in the poisoned blood which made his skin quite pale.

423, n. 1; 'oil of vitriol,' speaks of, v. 15, n. 1; parody of his speech, iv.

OIL OF VITRIOL, ii. 155; Johnson's, v. 15, n. 1.

Another method to clear them: Make up three lukewarm waters, in first put some bleaching liquor, in second a little vitriol, handle these two, and rinse through the third, hydro-extract, and hang in stove.

The remedy is to substitute half a gill of vitriol in place of tartar.

All things being properly disposed for the grand operation, the vitriol furnace was set to work, which requiring the most intense heat for several days, unhappily set fire to the house; the stairs were consumed in an instant, and as it surprized them all in their first sleep, it was a happy circumstance that no life perished.

This was vitriol dressing on a raw wound, and the suppression of the Visiter was expected by Judge Lynch.

Its conduct so roused Swift that his indignation found expression in one of his bitterest and most terrible poetical satires"The Legion Club"a satire so bitter and so scathing that reading it now, after the lapse of more than a century and a half, one shudders at its invective"a blasting flood of filth and vitriol, out of some hellish fountain," Mr. Churton Collins calls it.

Some remarks burned into his sensitive nature as vitriol burns into metal.

It is with the retina, therefore, that the vitreous humor is in contact.

The portion behind the iris forms the posterior chamber, and contains the crystalline lens and a transparent, jelly-like fluid, the vitreous humor.

The vitreous humor fills about four-fifths of the eyeball and prevents it from falling into a shapeless mass.

These media are the cornea, the aqueous humor, and the vitreous humor.

To note the shadows cast upon the retina by opaque matters in the vitreous humor (popularly known as floating specks, or gossamer threads), look through a small pin-hole in a card at a bright light covered by a ground-glass shade.

Vitreous (Lat. vitrum, glass).

This is owing to the absence of actual lava, the eruptive heat having nearly been sufficient to convert the superincumbent primary and tertiary rocks into a vitreous scoria, having a specific gravity of 3.2, and is highly indestructible in its texture.

Earthenware was used for holding wine, oils, and other liquids; but the finest production of the potter were the vases, covered with a vitreous glaze and modelled in every variety of forms, some of which were as elegant as those made later by the Greeks, who excelled in this department of art.

adamant, adamantine, adamantean^; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic^, vitreous; horny, corneous^; bony; osseous, ossific^; cartilaginous; hard as a rock &c n.; stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker;

Adj. transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent^, relucent^; limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous^, glassy, hyaline; hyaloid [Med.], vitreform^. 426.

According to the Catalogue, the following ores are found:Variegated copper ore (cobre gris abigarrado), arsenious copper (c. gris arsenical), vitreous copper (c. vitreo), copper pyrites (pirita de cobre), solid copper (mata cobriza), and black copper (c. negro).

He may be said to weave words into any shapes he pleases for use or ornament, as the glass-blower moulds the vitreous fluid with his breath; and his sentences shine like glass from their polished smoothness, and are equally transparent.

I shall confine myself to vitreous or glass mosaic, which for durability, extended scales of primary colors and their numerous semi-transparent gradations is unequaled by any substance yet used for wall or floor decoration.

If we hold the precious heritage of an artist's mindthat divine and rare something which gives form, color, and completeness to a story, a dream or a visionthen very little difficulty follows in making vitreous mosaic a valued servant in the realization of a fine creation.

It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.

Singular vitreous Formation.

Some of these great masses, both of the living cliff and ruined blocks beneath, are strangely pierced with a vein or tube of vitreous matter, not less in some instances than 18 inches in diameter.

Singular vitreous Formation.

SINGULAR VITREOUS FORMATION.

We remarked here, certain vitreous formations, in all, except form, identical with those already described as having been seen at Point Swan.

This done, he could now set the petals of his flowers with transparent stones which had morbid and vitreous sparks, feverish and sharp lights.

2, A celebrated German watering-place, on the Lahn, near Coblenz; its mineral springs, known to the Romans, vary in warmth from 80° to 135° F. ENAMEL, a vitreous compound, easily fusible, and coloured in various tints by the admixture of different metallic oxides; is fused to the surface of metals for utility and ornament; was known to the European and Asiatic ancients, and has maintained its popularity to the present day.

GARNET, a well-known precious stone of a vitreous lustre, and usually of a dark-red colour, resembling a ruby, but also found in various other shades, e. g. black, green, and yellow.