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ceroneum

ceroneum , waxy confection (alch.). b wax plaster. c shoe-polish. Cf. OF ciroine.. ~eum istud ferrum et cristallum ‥ ignis hujus violentia remollit M. Scot Lumen 266.  b ~ium carte inductum pectori superponimus Gilb. IV 199. 2; dyatesseron vel ~eum Ib. V 212v. 2 (v. cerotum b); cicatrices ‥ corrigantur ‥ cum ~eo vel oxicroceo Gad. 124. 2; cum emplastris et ~eis et unguentis Ib. 124v. 2; ~eum dicitur a cera, quam recipit in magna quantitate SB 15; 1307 pro emplastris, cironeis, diatrascos, †hoc sirocrocium [? l. oxicrocium] (KR Ac) EHR LXVII 173.  c 1307 pro cironis fundatis de gummis pro calceis regis cx s. (KR Ac) EHR LXVII 173.

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