Word Meanings - LADANUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - GATHER
1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. When small humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson. 2. To grow larger - RESIN
Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin - RESINOUSNESS
The quality of being resinous. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - RESINOUS
Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity , electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative. - RESINATE
Any one of the salts the resinic acids. - GATHERER
An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects. - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - RESINOID
Somewhat like resin. - RESINIFEROUS
Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel. - ORIENTALIZE
to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions. - GATHERABLE
Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin. - RESINO-ELECTRIC
Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - ORIENTALISM
1. Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people. 2. Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. London Quart. Rev. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - MEGATHEROID
One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - OLEORESIN
A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin. - TAXGATHERER
One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - KAURI RESIN; KAURI GUM; KAURI COPAL
A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber. - UPGATHER
To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.