Mercury ¹

Definition: A Latin god of commerce and gain; treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.

Mercury ²

Definition: A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol,

Mercury ³

Definition: One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about miles. Its period is days, and its diameter miles.

Mercury ⁴

Definition: A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.

Mercury ⁵

Definition: Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.

Mercury ⁶

Definition: A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.

Mercury ⁷

Definition: To wash with a preparation of mercury.

mercury ⁸

Definition: temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury was falling rapidly"

Mercury ⁹

Definition: the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun

Mercury ¹⁰

Definition: (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes

mercury ¹¹

Definition: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures