Brimstone

From LoveToKnow 1911

BRIMSTONE, the popular name of sulphur, particularly of the commercial "roll sulphur." The word means literally "burning stone"; the first part being formed from the stem of the Mid. Eng. brennen, to burn. Earlier forms of the word are brenstone, bernstone, brynstone, &c.


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