colcothar

English

Etymology

From Arabic قَلْقَطَار (qalqaṭār).

Noun

colcothar (countable and uncountable, plural colcothars)

1. (organic chemistry, obsolete) Polishing rouge; a reddish-brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment.

   Synonym: crocus Martis

Derived terms

• salt of colcothar

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “colcothar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ochlocrat