stibium

[ stib-ee-uh m ]

/ ˈstɪb i əm /

antimony.

Origin of stibium

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin stibi(s), stibium < Greek stíbi (variant of stímmi < Egyptian sdm)

stheno, sti, stibial, stibialism, stibine, stibium, stibnite, stich, sticharion, stichic, stichometry

A mixture of pulverised antimony (stibium) and zinc is still used by women in the East for this purpose.

The Expositor's Bible |F. W. Farrar
Her eyes are coloured with stibium, and her nostrils are shaped like the wings of a swallow.

A House of Pomegranates |Oscar Wilde
There are besides this, certain other cements which part gold from silver, composed of sulphur, stibium and other ingredients.

De Re Metallica |Georgius Agricola
Keren-Happuk, the name given by Job to one of his daughters, means "horn of stibium."

The Expositor's Bible |F. W. Farrar

The sixth method consists in heating together a bes of the copper and one-sixth of a libra each of sulphur, salt, and stibium.

De Re Metallica |Georgius Agricola

stibium

/ (ˈstɪbɪəm) /

an obsolete name for antimony

stibial, adjective

C14: from Latin: antimony (used as a cosmetic in ancient Rome), via Greek from Egyptian stm