mispickel Min.
(ˈmɪspɪkəl)
Also 7 -pickle, 8 -pikel.
[a. G. mispickel, formerly also mispütl, mispilt, of obscure origin.]
Native arseno-sulphide of iron; arsenical pyrites; arsenopyrite. Also attrib.
| 1683 Pettus Fleta Minor ii. 7 All Silver Oars..free from Flint, Blent, Cobolt, Mispickle, Glimmer, Wolferan. Ibid., The Blent, Cobolt, or mispickle Oars. 1789 in Med. Comm. II. 350 Specimens of aerated barytes that contain ramifications of mispikel. 1801 Chenevix in Phil. Trans. XCI. 215 To ascertain the quantity of metallic arsenic in mispickel. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 681 Mispickel is a tin-white mineral, which emits a garlic smell at the blowpipe. |
Hence † mispickly a., resembling mispickel.
| 1683 Pettus Fleta Minor i. 230 What is splendy, mispickly, glimery or spady. |