Cinnabar

Cinnabar, often translated as "red ore of quicksilver", is a fully appropriate name for this little fellow, a clever fox who appears regularly at one in the afternoon to lead hunters on a merry chase--and he was more promptly on time than most humans ever hope to be!. He lived, as legend would have it, in George Washingtons time, and loved best of all to challengethe general to catch him. After all, if one is to be caught, why not by a worthy opponent? But Cinnibar, of course, has no intention at all of being caught... the little fellow definately earns his name, with all the antics he pulls.

"Entrances to Cinnabar are both near and far. Look beyond the mirror...follow the yellow brick road...turn left at the north star and straight on till morning."

The world that Cinnabar has sprung up on has no name and indeed almost no features. A set of train tracks leads into the city from out of the desert. At the other end of the tracks is rumoured to lie the city of Els but no one living can say for sure whether that place exists or no.

Cin"na*bar (?), n. [L. cinnabaris, Gr. ; prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Per. qinbar, Hind. shangarf.]

1. Min.

Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

2.

The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.

Cinnabar Graecorum (). [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] Med. Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar Min., an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.

© Webster 1913.