BRIMSTONE

Brimstone

Brimstone is a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead police detective whose mission is to return to Hell 113 spirits who have escaped to Earth. The series ran for only one partial season.

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brimstone

Noun

  1. Sulphur.
  2. The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
  3. Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
  4. The butterfly of the Pieridae family.

Adjective

brimstone

  1. Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.
    '1ho walked up Aldersgate-street to some chapel where she comforts herself with brimstone doctrine.' — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller
    '2 cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain brimstone flames around him.' — Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbevilles


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