limaille

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limaille

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From French limaille.

noun

obsolete, uncountable Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel. This absence of blood, which was in accordance with the external phenomena, led to the disuse of mercury, and to the substitution of the internal use of iron, ( limaille porphyrisée, ) in the dose of a “gros" daily, under the form of opiate, with tonics.

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@misc{limaille_2026,
  title = {limaille},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/limaille},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}