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A seventeenth century chemical sign for oil. Oil was also drawn  ,  , and in many other ways. Different types of oil also had their special signs. Consult the Word Index.
Three golden circular forms is also an old sign for pawnbrokers and money-lenders. Pawnbrokers are still often symbolized by the similar  .
Note that  means silver in some modern mining contexts, and is a sign for rain in certain meteorological systems. Compare with  , clubs, and  , one of the signs for silver in alchemy.
In the chemistry of the eighteenth century also could stand for aether, ether. That could have meant the ether known by todays chemists, the substance used in nineteenth centrury medicine as an anaesthetic, or it might have meant ether as that element formerly held to form the material of the heavenly spheres from the moon to the fixed stars.
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