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copple dust

copple dust noun: cupel-dust; powder used in refining metals, or the gross parts separated by the coppel.

Noun

copple dust (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Cupel-dust; powder used in refining metals, or the gross parts separated by the coppel.
    • It may be also tried , by incorporating powder of steel , or copple-dust , by pouncing into the quick - silver , and so to proceed to the stupifying UPON glassa. 1626, Francis Bacon, Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals

Questions about copple dust

What does copple dust mean?
Copple dust means cupel-dust; powder used in refining metals, or the gross parts separated by the coppel.
What part of speech is copple dust?
Copple dust is a noun.

Words near copple dust in the dictionary

  1. coppis
  2. coppises
  3. coppish
  4. coppishes
  5. copple
  6. copple dust
  7. copple-crown
  8. copple-crowns
  9. coppled
  10. copples
  11. Copplestone

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