Found 2 items, similar to Quicksilver.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: quicksilver quicksilver adj : 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” [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)] n : a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures [syn: mercury, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80 ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Quicksilver Quicksilver \Quick"sil`ver\, n. [Quick living + silver; -- so called from its fluidity; cf. G. quecksilber, L. argentum vivum. See Quick, a.] (Chem.) The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. [1913 Webster] Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water. [1913 Webster]