Usually means: Elemental metal, liquid at room-temperature.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. mercury: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Mercury, mercury, mercury: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Mercury, mercury: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mercury: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Mercury, mercury: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mercury, mercury: Wordnik
  7. Mercury, mercury, the mercury: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mercury, mercury: Wiktionary
  9. mercury: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mercury: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mercury: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mercury: Dictionary.com
  13. Mercury: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mercury: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Mercury: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mercury: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mercury: Rhymezone
  19. mercury: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mercury: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mercury: Free Dictionary
  22. Mercury: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. mercury: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. mercury: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Mercury: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mercury: Global Glossary
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mercury: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. Mercury: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  3. Mercury (disambiguation), Mercury (element), mercury: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Mercury: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. Mercury (disambiguation), Mercury (element), mercury: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. mercury: Dictionary of Cancer Terms

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mercury: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mercury: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Mercury: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. MERCURY: The Mineral Gallery
  4. mercury: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements
  5. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of chlorine and other chemical related terms (No longer online)
  7. Mercury: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mercury: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (literally)
noun:  A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.
noun:  (sciences, historical) One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals.
noun:  (with definite article) Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers).
noun:  (obsolete) Liveliness, volatility.
noun:  Any of several types of plant.
noun:  An annual plant, annual mercury (Mercurialis annua), formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury, herb mercury.
noun:  Any plant of any species of the genus and the genus Mercurialis.
noun:  A similar edible plant (Blitum bonus-henricus), otherwise known as English mercury or allgood.
noun:  (US, regional) The poison oak or poison ivy.
noun:  (astronomy) The first planet in the Solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿.
noun:  (Roman mythology) The Roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger, wearing winged sandals; the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes.
noun:  (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Quicksilver, mercury. (No longer capitalized, as the name of the metal is no longer recognized as that of the planet.)
noun:  (archaic) A carrier of tidings.
noun:  A newsboy, a messenger.
noun:  A footman.
noun:  Someone who carries messages between lovers; a go-between.
noun:  A newspaper.

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