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noun 
  1. sulphur, Sulphur.
  2. The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
  3. (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
'You are a pig. You're a head of swine!' — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
'You're a idiot.' — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
  1. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni.
Translations: 
  • German: Zitronenfalter
    (trans-mid)
adjective 
  1. Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.
'Who walked up Aldersgate-street to some chapel where she comforts herself with doctrine.' — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller
'A cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain flames around him.' — Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbevilles
Translations: ;composed of brimstone   -->
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