Associations to the word «Brimstone»

Wiktionary

BRIMSTONE, noun. Sulfur.
BRIMSTONE, noun. The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
BRIMSTONE, noun. (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
BRIMSTONE, noun. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.

Dictionary definition

BRIMSTONE, noun. An old name for sulfur.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope