a. Also 6 sulfery, sulpherie, 6–7 sulphurie, sulph’ry, 7 sulfrie, sulphory, 7, 9 (U.S.) sulfury. [f. SULPHUR sb. + -Y.]

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  1.  Consisting of, containing or impregnated with sulphur; = SULPHUROUS 1.

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1580.  Frampton, Dial. Yron & Steele, 154. The yron hath more force, bycause it is not cleane of the sulpherie partes.

3

1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., iii. 200. That Bathonian Spring, Which from the sulphury mines her med’cinal force doth bring.

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1683.  Pettus, Fleta Min., I. (1686), 34. The gross Sulphury oars.

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1686.  Goad, Celest. Bodies, III. ii. 429. Planetary Warmth … may stir the Nitrous Spirit, as well as enflame the Sulfury Particle.

6

1799.  [see SULPHUR 4 b].

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1861.  Geikie, Edward Forbes, x. 289. The Statice clustered along the banks of a sulphury pool.

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1892.  Daily News, 23 Sept., 3/2. Sulphury iron.

9

  2.  = SULPHUREOUS 2.

10

1614.  Gorges, Lucan, VII. 267. The sulfrie aire rusts murdring steele.

11

1630.  [see SULPHUROUS a. 2, quot. 1625].

12

1697.  Dryden, Æneid, IV. 555. Dido shall come, in a black Sulph’ry flame.

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1812.  H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., viii. 51. Sulphury stench and boiling drench.

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1823.  Praed, Troubadour, II. 553. What a villanous, odious, sulphury smell!

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  b.  = SULPHUROUS 2 b.

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XIII. 225. A fierie Meteor, with which, Ioues sulphrie hand Opes heauen.

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c. 1620.  Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 50. High mountains … have … shops for sulphr’y thunder.

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1648.  J. Beaumont, Psyche, XII. xxxvii. Wks. (Grosart), II. 3. Had Sicily Her Etna lost, this sulphury Region Would shew it her in multiplicity.

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1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., I. xxxviii. Death rides upon the sulphury Siroc.

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1854.  B. Taylor, Lands Saracen, 77 (Cent.). A hot, sulphury haze.

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  c.  Pertaining to gunpowder.

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1823.  Byron, Island, III. i. The fight was o’er,… and sulphury vapours upward driven Had left the earth, and but polluted heaven.

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1881.  Palgrave, Vis. Eng., 274. Iron hailing of pitiless death from the sulphury smoke.

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  3.  a. = SULPHUROUS 3 a.

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1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Jacke-a-Lent, Wks. I. 115/1. The sulphory Necromanticke Cookes.

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1648.  J. Beaumont, Psyche, VIII. ccxii. His [sc. Lucifer’s] sulphury face. Ibid., XV. xlvii. Mighty Terror stopp’d the sulphury road Of their rank breath [sc. of the peers of hell].

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[1751.  Warburton, Pope’s Donne Sat., iv. 184, note. They both call out as if they were half stifled by the sulphury air of the place.]

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  b.  = SULPHUROUS 3 b.

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1593.  Marlowe & Dekker, Lust’s Dominion, II. v. Sulphury wrath Having … entred into Royall brests: Mark how it burns.

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  4.  = SULPHUREOUS 4.

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1900.  B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, 260/2. Sulphurinus, sulphury in tint.

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1903.  Sampson Morgan, in 19th Cent., Dec., 971. The common Dutch black and sulphury grapes have been superseded.

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1905.  E. Candler, Unveiling of Lhasa, xiv. 266. In September the trees were wearing their autumn tints, the willows were mostly a sulphury yellow.

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