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negligible (iou) and turpeth (medicine)


negligible (iou)



negligible adjective. E19.
[French negligible, from negliger neglect: see -IBLE. Cf. NEGLIGEABLE.]
Able to be neglected or disregarded; unworthy of notice or regard; so small or insignificant as to be ignorable.
negligible quantity a person who or thing which need not be considered.
J. F. W. Herschel Within very negligible limits of error. A. T. Ellis He found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui. Z. Tomin We may appear ludicrously pretentious; our numbers negligible.
negligi'bility noun E20.
negligibleness noun E20.
negligibly adverb L19.

turpeth (medicine)


turpeth


1. <botany> The root of Ipomoea Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; sometimes called vegetable turpeth.

2. <chemistry> A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; called also turpeth mineral.

Origin: NL. Turpethum, fr. Per. Tirbid a cathartic, turbad a purgative root. Cf. Turbith

Alternative forms: turbeth, and turbith.

Source: Websters Dictionary