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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aquila \Aq"ui*la\, n.; pl {Aquil[ae]}. [L., an eagle.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of eagles. 2. (Astron.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle. {Aquila alba} [L., white eagle], an alchemical name of {calomel}. --Brande & C. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Calomel \Cal"o*mel\, n. [Gr. ????? beautiful + ????? black. So called from its being white, though made from a black mixture of mercury and corrosive sublimate. Cf F. calom['e]las.] (Chem.) Mild chloride of mercury, {Hg2Cl2}, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: calomel n : a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic [syn: {mercurous chloride}]
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