(chemistry, transitive) To treat with mercury (the metal). / (obsolete, medicine) To treat with a mercury ointment / (obsolete, intransitive) To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious.

simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mercurialize

Mercurial behaviour.

plural of mercuriality

Chronic mercury poisoning.

A newsboy, a messenger. / A footman. / Someone who carries messages between lovers; a go-between. / A newspaper.

(astronomy) The planet in the solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿.

(obsolete) Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).

(comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.