Usually means: Mercury, a liquid metallic element.
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  1. quicksilver: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quicksilver: Merriam-Webster
  3. quicksilver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quicksilver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quicksilver: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quicksilver: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quicksilver, quicksilver: Wordnik
  8. quicksilver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quicksilver: Wiktionary
  10. quicksilver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quicksilver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quicksilver: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. quicksilver: Dictionary.com
  14. quicksilver: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Quicksilver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quicksilver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quicksilver: Rhymezone
  19. Quicksilver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quicksilver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. quicksilver: FreeDictionary.org
  22. quicksilver: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. quicksilver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. quicksilver: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quicksilver: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. quicksilver: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quicksilver: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. quicksilver: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quicksilver: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quicksilver: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. Quicksilver: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The metal mercury.
noun:  (loosely) An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering.
adjective:  Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial.
verb:  (transitive) To overlay with quicksilver.
verb:  (transitive) To treat with quicksilver.

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