Obs. [a. F. argent vif:—L. argentum vivum (Pliny).] Quicksilver, mercury.
1453. in Heath, Grocers’ Comp. (1869), 422. Argent Vyff, ye bolyon … iiijd.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., II. i. The Bulls our fornace … our argent-viue, the Dragon.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 84. Argent-vive or Quick-silver.
