limaille

Noun

limaille (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel.
   • This absence of blood, which was in accordance with the external phenomena, led to the disuse of mercury, and to the substitution of the internal use of iron, ( limaille porphyrisée, ) in the dose of a “gros" daily, under the form of opiate, with tonics.1833, John Forbes, The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine
   • [I]f, therefore, a measured half-pint of limaille be submitted to the process, however rich or poor in quality, four fluid ounces of hydrochloric acid and sixteen of water would be such proportions as I think would meet every case.1858, Transactions of the Odontological Society of Great Britain, page 19