ruddle

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Lemnian earth, ruddle, and very many minerals do this, and yet they are fatuously said to attract.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Lemnian, lem′ni-an, adj. pertaining to Lemnos in the �gean Sea.—Lemnian earth, cimolite; Lemnian ruddle, a red chalk found in Lemnos.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

The distorted gibbous disk lifted itself above the edge—red as ruddle and enlarged by the refraction: a giant coppery moon, weird and magical.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard

Ducange, with the authorities quoted above, make its colour green; but the sinoper, or ruddle of commerce, is of a dark red or purplish hue.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

They revolted in 363-362, but were reduced again, and the Athenians established a monopoly of the ruddle, or red earth, which was one of the most valuable products of the island.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various