Word Meanings - KATTIMUNDOO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• KATTIMUNDOO
  A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.
• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• JUICE
  The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• CEMENTATION
  A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus
• CEMENT
  Etym: 1. To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. Bp. Burnet. 2. To unite firmly or closely. Shak. 3. To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
• CEMENTATORY
  Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.
• EUPHORBIACEOUS; EUPHORBIAL
  Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.
• CEMENT STEEL
  Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.
• CAOUTCHOUC
  A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• EUPHORBIA
  Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.
• INDIAN
  1. A native or inhabitant of India. 2. One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
• CEMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• CEMENTITIOUS
  Of the nature of cement. Forsyth.
• OBTAIN
  1. To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer. Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• CEMENTER
  A person or thing that cements.
• SCARCEMENT
  An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• INTERLACEMENT
  The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.
• DOLCE; DOLCEMENTE
  Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.