Davy (Surrey cricketer)
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noun


(1)   English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
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Proper noun



  1. A diminutive of the male given name David.
  2. derived from David.

Quotations

  • ~1599 William Shakespeare: Henry the Fifth: Act IV, Scene I:
    Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate
    Upon Saint Davy's day.
 
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