英语词汇“keffekill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

keffekill

释义

‖ keffekill Min. Obs. rare.
Also kiffe-, kiefe-.
[‘Said to mean the earth of Keffe or Kaffe, the town of the Crimea from which it was shipped’ (Chester, Dict. Names Min.). Perh. repr. Pers. kef-i-gil ‘foam of clay’; but the classical Pers. name is kef-i-daryā ‘foam of the sea’ (J. T. Platts).]
= meerschaum.
[1758Cronstedt Mineralogie 79 states, that the Keffekil Tartarorum was used by the Tartars as soap.]1784Kirwan Elem. Min. 59 Meershaum of the Germans, Keffekill.1796Ibid. (ed. 2) I. 145 Keffekill or myrsen..is said to be when recently dug of a yellow colour, and as tenacious as cheese or wax.1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 477 To the first of these classes belongs the ruby; to the second, steatites and kiffekille.

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