See Also: brimstone(medicine)
brimstone(dictionary)
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park(tourism)

brimstone (iou)



brimstone noun.
[Late Old English brynstan, prob. from bryne (= Old Norse bruni) burning (formed as BURN verb) + STONE noun.]
Sulphur; esp. (otherwise arch.) burning sulphur, (the fuel of) hell-fire. LOE.
fire and brimstone: see FIRE noun.
b. fig. Fire, passion. E17.
A virago, a spitfire; a promiscuous woman. L17-E19.
In full brimstone butterfly. A pierid butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, with sulphur-yellow wings. L17.
Comb.: brimstone butterfly: see sense 3 above; brimstone moth a geometrid moth, Opisthograptis luteolata, with yellow wings; brimstone-wort a yellow-flowered umbellifer of the genus Peucedanum, sulphur-wort.
brimstony adjective of, pertaining to, or resembling brimstone; sulphureous, fiery: LME.