Definitions for brimstone
ˈbrɪmˌstoʊnbrim·stone

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphurnoun

   an old name for sulfur

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. brimstonenoun

   Sulphur.

2. brimstonenoun

   The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.

3. brimstonenoun

   Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.

4. brimstonenoun

   The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.

5. brimstoneadjective

   Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.

6. Etymology: From brimston, bremston, corrupted forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from brynstan, equivalent to, or. Cognate with brunstane, brennisteinn, Bernstein. Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Brimstonenoun

   Sulphur. See Sulphur.

   Etymology: corrupted from brin or brenstone, that is, firy stone.

   From his infernal furnace forth he threw
   Huge flames, that dimmed all the heaven’s light,
   Enroll’d in duskish smoke and brimstone blue. Fairy Q. b. i.

   This vapour is generally supposed to be sulphureous, though I can see no reason for such a supposition: I put a whole bundle of lighted brimstone matches to the smoke, they all went out in an instant. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Brimstoneverb

   sulphur; See Sulphur

2. Brimstoneadjective

   made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Brimstone

   brim′stōn, n. sulphur: (fig.) a virago.—Fire and brimstone! an ejaculation. [Lit. burning stone; from A.S. brýne, a burning—byrnan, to burn, and Stone; cf. Ger. bernstein.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. BRIMSTONE

   A little bit of Hades, which finds its match on earth and smells to heaven. Better to strike it here than in the hereafter.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. brimstone

   See SULPHUR.

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1. • Sulfur

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of brimstone in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of brimstone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of brimstone in a Sentence

1. Yitz Dekel:

   In a way, without fire and brimstone, this is a natural disaster, a technological failure and natural disaster.

2. Leland Melvin:

   I had just liberated fire and brimstone by taking these two clear chemicals and putting them together, and that led me to becoming a chemistry major in college.

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