Mercury vs Liquefacient - What's the difference?
mercury | liquefacient |
A metal.
# A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.
# (science, historical) One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals.
# The mercury as used in a barometer or thermometer; ambient temperature.
# (obsolete) Liveliness, volatility.
#* Bishop Burnet
A plant.
# An annual plant, Mercurialis annua , formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury.
#* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 188:
# A similar edible plant, Chenopodium bonus-henricus , otherwise known as English mercury or allgood.
# (US, regional) The poison oak or poison ivy.
That which serves to liquefy.
(medicine, obsolete) Any agent, such as mercury, iodine, etc., that promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between mercury and liquefacient
is that mercury is (dated) a carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger while liquefacient is that which serves to liquefy.As a proper noun mercury
is (roman god) the roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger he wore winged sandals mercury corresponded to the greek god hermes.mercury
English
Noun
(-)- The mercury there has averaged 37.6C, 2.3C above the February norm.
- He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.
- Towards the tops of the stalks and branches come forth at every joint in the male Mercury two small round green heads, standing together upon a short footstalk, which growing ripe are the seeds, not having any flower.