Definition of "galena" [ga•le•na]

• A gray mineral, essentially PbS, the principal ore of lead. (noun)

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• "a saddle of mutton; second course, a fowl they call galena at head, and a capon larger than some of our Irish turkeys, at foot; third course, four different sorts of ices, pine-apple, grape, raspberry, and a fourth; in each remove there were I think fourteen dishes."
• "The tablets, he discovered, were made of Tunisian lead, suggesting that the Romans were mining a lead ore known as galena in the African colony."
• "There's Jeff Bezos on the right and Paul Saville on the left looking for galena, which is the lead-silver thing."