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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crucible; a melting-pot.
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bilby commented on the word crusoile
"Rogero: Shall any broken quacksalver’s bastard oppose him to me in my nuptials? No; but I’ll show him better metal than e’er the gallemawfrey his father used. Thou scum of his melting-pots, that wert christen’d in a crusoile with Mercury’s water to show thou wouldest prove a stinging aspis! for all thou spitt’st is aqua fortis, and thy breath is a compound of poison’s stillatory: if I get within thee, hadst thou the scaly hide of a crocodile, as thou art partly of his nature, I would leave thee as bare as an anatomy at the second viewing."
- John Marston, 'The Insatiate Countess', 1613. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46312/46312-h/46312-h.htm
July 30, 2021