Obs. Also electar. [ad. L. ēlectr-um (cf. Pr. electre, OF. eleutre), ad. Gr. ἤλεκτρον amber, also = sense 1: cf. ELECTRON, ELECTRUM. (In OE. the L. word was adapted as elehtre.)]

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  1.  An alloy of gold and silver, bright and precious; also attrib.

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1382.  Wyclif, Ezek. i. 4. Electre … a metal of gold and siluer, cleerere than gold.

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1585.  Jas. I., Ess. Poesie (Arb.), 25. Pale Electre light. Ibid., 76. Electre, a metal, fowre parts gold and fift part siluer.

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a. 1626.  Bacon, Physiol. Rem. (1679), 98. Change Silver Plate or Vessel into the Compound Stuff, being a kind of Silver Electre.

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1656.  H. More, Antid. Ath., III. ix. (1712), 168. The Bell made of Paracelsus’s Electre.

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  2.  Amber; also elixir, healing gum (cf. AMBER 7). Also attrib.

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1595.  B. Barnes, Spir. Sonn., in Farr’s S. P. Eliz., I. 41. O blessed sweet wounds! fountains of electre!

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1632.  Randolph, Jealous Lov., III. Sweet gumms that from Electar trees Distill.

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