One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or
yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in
medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs
native as the mineral horn quicksi...
