Quicksilver
is argenʹtum vivum (living silver) silver that moves about like a living thing. (Anglo-Saxon, cwicseolfor.)
It courses through the natural gates
And alleys of the body.”
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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.