Also 5 amyaunt. [a. Fr. amiante, ad. L. amiant-us.] = AMIANT(H)US. (Now a poetic form.)

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1420.  Siege of Rouen, in Archæol., XX. 372. The kyngis heraudis & pursuiauntis In cotis of armys amyauntis.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 589. The Amiant stone is like Alume.

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1713.  Angestein, in Phil. Trans., XXVIII. 223. The Amiant part is of a light Gray or Lead colour.

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c. 1815.  Southey, Young Dragon, I. VI. 263. With amianth he lined the nest, And incombustible asbest.

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