mercurie

mercurie (countable and uncountable, plural mercuries)

1. Obsolete spelling of mercury.
   • 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “Of the Myne of Golde and the Qualitie therof in Particular”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, decade, folio 335, verso:

     When therfore they perceaue a ſufficient quantitie of golde thus remaynynge on the tables, they gather it with diligence and put it in a tray or great ſhallowe dyſſhe of wod […] they beate or mixte (or amalgame it as they caule it) with Mercurie or quickſyluer, […]

mercurie

1. vocative singular of mercurius

• mercurye, mercury, mercure, marcurie, marcury, marcure, mercurii, mercurij

From Latin Mercurius.

mercurie

1. The silvery-coloured chemical element that is liquid at room temperature; quicksilver, mercury.
2. (botany) A plant belonging to the genus Chenopodium; goosefoots.

• (plant): mercurial

• English: mercury

• Mercurie

• “Mercuri(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 June 2018.