"limaille" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1833, John Forbes, The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine",
          "text": "This absence of blood, which was in accordance with the external phenomena, led to the disuse of mercury, and to the substitution of the internal use of iron, ( limaille porphyrisée, ) in the dose of a “gros\" daily, under the form of opiate, with tonics.",
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          "ref": "1858, Transactions of the Odontological Society of Great Britain, page 19",
          "text": "[I]f, therefore, a measured half-pint of limaille be submitted to the process, however rich or poor in quality, four fluid ounces of hydrochloric acid and sixteen of water would be such proportions as I think would meet every case.",
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          "ref": "1858, Quarterly Journal of Dental Science - Volume 1, page 379",
          "text": "I have with much pleasure listened to Mr. Bennett's paper on refining gold, and the reduction of limaille, but as I consider every dentist may not have the means of applying the dry process, allow me to state the mode I recommend, as being the less elaborate, and the less expensive. Limaille generally consists of gold, silver, iron, lead, tin, zinc, and bone filings.",
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        "Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel."
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        "(dentistry, obsolete) Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel."
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