Word Meanings - MASTICIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A white, amorphous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic.
Related words: (words related to MASTICIN)
- WHITECAP
The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - WHITESTER
A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - WHITESIDE
The golden-eye. - SUBSTANCE
To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. - WHITE-EAR
The wheatear. - INSOLUBLENESS
The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility. Boyle. - WHITEBLOW
See WHITLOW - WHITEWING
The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck. - WHITEWALL
The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts. - WHITE MUSTARD
A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage. - WHITE-WATER
A dangerous disease of sheep. - OBTAINABLE
Capable of being obtained. - INSOLUBLE
loosed: cf. F. insoluble. See In- not, and Soluble, and cf. 1. Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water. 2. Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, - WHITETHROAT
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat . - MASTICABLE
Capable of being masticated. - MASTICATION
The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot. - WHITEBILL
The American coot. - HEPPELWHITE
Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co. - REMASTICATION
The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly. - REOBTAINABLE
That may be reobtained. - DOCIMASTIC
Proving by experiments or tests. Docimastic art, metallurgy, or the art of assaying metals; the art of separating metals from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substances contained in any ore or mineral.