Definitions for stibium

stibium stib·i·um

Spelling: [stib-ee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈstɪb i əm/

Stibium is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in stibium (biimstu).

Definitions for stibium

noun

  1. antimony.

Origin of stibium

1350-1400; Middle English Latin stibi(s), stibium Greek stíbi (variant of stímmi Egyptian sdm)

Examples for stibium

Some of the alabasti would contain kohl or stibium, some salves and ointments, others perhaps perfumed washes for the complexion.

Her eyes are coloured with stibium, and her nostrils are shaped like the wings of a swallow.

A mixture of pulverised antimony (stibium) and zinc is still used by women in the East for this purpose.

There are besides this, certain other cements which part gold from silver, composed of sulphur, stibium and other ingredients.

The sixth method consists in heating together a bes of the copper and one-sixth of a libra each of sulphur, salt, and stibium.

Keren-Happuk, the name given by Job to one of his daughters, means "horn of stibium."

Word Value for stibium
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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