Definition of Ethiops. Meaning of Ethiops. Synonyms of Ethiops

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Definition of Ethiops

Ethiops
Ethiops E"thi*ops . [NL. See Ethiop.] (Old Chem.) A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color. [Written also [AE]thiops.] [Obs.] Ethiops martial (Old Chem.), black oxide of iron. Ethiops mineral (Old Chem.), black sulphide of mercury, obtained by triturating mercury with sulphur. Ethiops per se (Old Chem.), mercury in finely divided state, having the appearance of a dark powder, obtained by shaking it up or by exposure to the air.
Ethiop
Ethiop E"thi*op, Ethiopian E`thi*o"pi*an, n. [L. Aethiops, Gr. ?; ? to burn + ? face.] A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.

Meaning of Ethiops from wikipedia

- an ancient term for parts of Africa Æthiops mineral, a form of cinnabar Ethiops martial, or wüstite, a mineral Black people in Ancient Roman history People...
- Triacanthodes ethiops, the shortsnout spikefish, is a deep-water demersal fish found at a depth range 50–458 m.Triacanthodes ethiops Al****, 1894 from...
- Wüstite (FeO, sometimes also written as Fe0.95O) is a mineral form of mostly iron(II) oxide found with meteorites and native iron. It has a grey colour...
- Metacinnabar is the cubic form of mercury sulfide (HgS). It is the high temperature form and trimorphous with cinnabar (trigonal structure) and the higher...
- genus: Triacanthodes anomalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 Triacanthodes ethiops Al****, 1894 (Shortsnout spikefish) Triacanthodes indicus Matsuura, 1982...
- salts. As of 1825, the London Pharmacopoeia listed a compound called "Ethiops-mineral" or Hydrargyri Sulphuretum Nigrum ("black sulfide of mercury")...
- he p****es from the Hesperides in the ****hest west to the land of the Ethiops, with whom he p****es the dark hours. According to Athenaeus, Mimnermus...
- forbærned burhhleoðu, brune leode, hatum heofoncolum. "... southward lay the Ethiop's land, parched hill-slopes and a race burned brown by the heat of the sun...
- Commander of such a vessel is a great Emir; when he lands, the archers and the Ethiops march before him bearing javelins and swords, with drums beating and trumpets...
- 2007, at the Wayback Machine "Index of /tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/". Dante.ctan.org. Retrieved 2017-01-20. "Gnu FreeFont support for OpenType...