Brimstone

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Sulfur.
  • n. Damnation to hell.
  • n. Fiery or passionate rhetoric: "the great American evangelist of Yankee bargain-hunting, converting us . . . with the brimstone of his secular preachingā€ ( Rushworth M. Kidder).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.
  • n. Sulphur.
  • n. The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
  • n. Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
  • n. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Sulphur; See sulphur.
  • adj. Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Sulphur; specifically, sulphur in a concrete or solidified state, or reduced from that state: as, roll-brimstone; fluid brimstone.
  • n. The brimstone butterfly.
  • Of, pertaining to, or made of brimstone: as, brimstone matches.
  • Sulphur-yellow in color; resembling brimstone or sulphur in color; bright-yellow.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an old name for sulfur
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    sulphur    atomic number 16    s    sulfur   
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