See ferreous on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book 6, Chapter XII: \"A Digression Concerning Blacknesse\", p. 336",
"text": "The ſecond way whereby bodies become blacke, is an Atramentous condition or mixture, that is a vitriolate or copperoſe quality conjoyning with a terreſtrious and aſtringent humidity, for ſo is Atramentum ſcriptorium, or writing Inke commonly made, by copperoſe caſt upon decoction or infuſion of galls... now artificiall copperoſe... is a rough and acrimonious kinde of salt drawne out of ferreous and eruginous earths, partaking chiefly of Iron and Copper, the blew of copper, the green moſt of Iron..."
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