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Word Meanings - MIXTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Mixture. 2. A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

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  • AMBERGREASE
    See AMBERGRIS
  • MASTICABLE
    Capable of being masticated.
  • AMBER
    1. Consisting of amber; made of amber. "Amber bracelets." Shak. 2. Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored. "The amber morn." Tennyson.
  • AMBERGRIS
    A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true
  • 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.
  • AMBER TREE
    A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.
  • 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.
  • MASTICATE
    To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
  • MASTICATOR
    1. One who masticates. 2. A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
  • MORDANT
    Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes. (more info) 1. Any corroding substance used in etching.
  • MASTICOT
    Massicot.
  • CEMENTATORY
    Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.
  • MASTICIN
    A white, amorphous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic.
  • MORDANTLY
    In the manner of a mordant.
  • AMBER FISH
    A fish of the southern Atlantic coast
  • CEMENT STEEL
    Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.
  • AMBER ROOM
    A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered.
  • MASTICATER
    One who masticates.
  • LAMBERT PINE
    The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
  • BORDEAUX MIXTURE
    A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • 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.
  • REMASTICATION
    The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
  • 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.
  • REDUCEMENT
    Reduction. Milton.
  • CHAMBERER
    1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
  • STAR-CHAMBER
    An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • CHAMBERED
    Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
  • 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.
  • INCHAMBER
    To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
  • ENHANCEMENT
    The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

 

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