▪ I. † gur Min. Obs.
[a. med.L. gur, perh. a. G. guhr ferment (used by later mineralogists with different sense: see guhr).]
(See quots.)
| 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 160, I take it to be the Gur of the Adeptists, i.e. the matter of Metalls before it be coagulated into a Metallic form... It might be the Gur of Lead. [1739 Bromell Mineralogia vi. 6 En sådan silfwahaltig hwit bergmiölk eller gur metallicum utflöt åhr 1696.] 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Gur, a word used to express a fluid matter looking like milk, but reduced sometimes, by evaporation, to the consistence of honey, and appearing in form of a white sediment. It always contains more or less silver, and is common in the mines of Sweden, and in some other places. |
▪ II. gur
variant of goor, a coarse Indian sugar.