BRIMSTONE

brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur

(noun) an old name for sulfur

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

brimstone (countable and uncountable, plural brimstones)

The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.

(obsolete) Sulfur.

(obsolete) A whore.

(archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.

The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.

Anagrams

• strombine

Source: Wiktionary

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Brim"stone, n. Etym: [OE. brimston, bremston, bernston, brenston; cf. Icel. brennistein. See Burn, v. t., and Stone.]

Definition: Sulphur; See Sulphur.

Brim"stone, a.

Definition: Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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