Associations to the word «Quicksilver»

Wiktionary

QUICKSILVER, noun. The metal mercury.
QUICKSILVER, noun. (colloquial) An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering.
QUICKSILVER, adjective. Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial.
QUICKSILVER, verb. To overlay with quicksilver.
QUICKSILVER, verb. To treat with quicksilver.
QUICKSILVER WATER, noun. A solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering.

Dictionary definition

QUICKSILVER, noun. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures.
QUICKSILVER, adjective. Liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats