/keuh lib"ee it, -ayt'/ , adj.
1. containing or impregnated with salts of iron, as a mineral spring or medicine.
n.
2. a chalybeate water, medicine, or the like.
[ 1625-35; chalybeatus, L chalybe ( ïus ) of steel ( chalybeís, equiv. to chalybe-, var. s. of chályps iron + -is adj. suffix) + -atus -ATE 1 ; see CHALYBITE ]