mercurIalIst

[Eng. mercurial; -ist.] *1. A person of a mercurial temperament; one who is sprightly, fickle, and changeable. "Mercurialists are solitary, much in contemplation, subtile, poets, philosophers, and musing much about such matters."--Burton: Anat . of Melancholy , p. 190. 2. A physician who is much given to the use of mercury in his treatment of diseases. -ize.] mer-cür-I-al-ize, v. i. & t. [Eng. mercurial; *A. In trans.: To act capriciously; to be capri cio us or changeable. IMG:content-1113.png:[blocks in formation] mercuric-cyanide, s. Chem.: Hg(CN) 2. Prepared by di olving yellow mercuric oxide in aqueous hydrocyanic acid, the former being in slight exce . It crystallizes in brilliant quadratic prisms, slightly soluble in water, and is very poisonous.