Middle English Dictionary Entry
amalgam(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | amalgam(e n. Also malgam(e. |
| Etymology | ML & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A blend of mercury with another metal, amalgam.
Associated quotations
- [ a1400 in Singer Cat.Alchem.2.604 : Amalgama rubeum. Take i part of fyne golde and of mercury iiii partes, and grynd hem. ]
- a1500 in Singer Cat.Alchem.2.620 : For to gylde..yron or for to siluer hit, make amalgam as thu woldist gilde.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)59a : When the medcin as wax dothe flowe, Then apon malgames loke thowe yt throwe.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)64b : Many A malgame did I make.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)1061 : He had spent all his lustie dayes In fals receiptes..in malgames, in blaunchers and in cytrinacions.