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Briquet

noun
(Also briquet)
1.
A block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel.  Synonym: briquette.






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"Briquet" Quotes from Famous Books



... sixteenth-century suit of armour, bearing the Nuremberg stamp, and the horse protected by a barb richly repousse, engraved, and formerly silvered. The designs on this display the Burgundian cross ragule and the flint and steel. The steel or briquet is to be seen also in the hinges and in the metal coverings for the reins. It will be remembered that this design forms the motif of the collar of the ...
— Authorised Guide to the Tower of London • W. J. Loftie

... administer large doses of powdered Peruvian bark. The rationale of these large doses was founded upon their sedative effect. Haygrath, Morton, Heberden, and Fothergill were the first to employ this method. Later still, a number of noted French physicians, among them Briquet, Andral, Monerat, and Legroux, renewed the use of this medicine in the form of quinia, but gave it in smaller doses, seeking only its tonic effect, from five to fifteen grains being administered in the course of twenty-four hours, and then it was still continued in smaller doses. Still ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various



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