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Saturn’s Tree

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in alchemy, is a deposit of crystallised lead, massed together in the form of a “tree.” It is produced by a shaving of zinc in a solution of the acetate of lead. In alchemy Saturn = lead. (See Diana’s Tree.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Sash Window
Sassanides
Sassenach (ch = k)
Satan
Satan’s Journey to Earth (Milton: Paradise Lost, iii. 418 to the end)
Satanic
Satire
Saturday
Saturn or Kronos [Time]
Saturn
Saturn’s Tree
Saturnalia
Saturnian Days
Saturnian Verses
Saturnine
Satyr
Satyrane
Sauce
Sauce (To)
Sauce to the Goose is Sauce to the Gander
Saucer Eyes