Associations to the word «Chalybeate»

Wiktionary

CHALYBEATE, adjective. Flavored with mineral salts
CHALYBEATE, noun. A mineral water that was a voguish general remedy during the 17th-19th century.

Dictionary definition

CHALYBEATE, adjective. Containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron.

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