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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.

 

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