blue mass
noun Pharmacology.
Also called mercury mass.
a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
Origin of blue mass
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Words nearby blue mass
blue line,
blue lips,
blue lotus,
blue mantle,
blue marlin,
blue mass,
blue melilot,
blue merle,
blue mockingbird,
blue mold,
blue monday
Example sentences from the Web for blue mass
"You'd better take a dose of blue-mass," her aunt suggested when she had sighed seven times dolefully at the tea table.
The doctor gave him a lot of blue-mass pills, which Si threw into the fire as soon as he got back to his quarters.
Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) |John McElroy