resalgar

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English resalgar. See realgar.

Noun

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resalgar (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of realgar.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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resalgar (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of realgar
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 814-815:
      [...] Resalgar, and our materes enbibing;
      And eek of our materes encorporing,
      [...]
      [...] Arsenic, and soaking our materials;
      And also of forming a compound of our materials, [...]