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Word Meanings - BALSAMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of imparting balsamic properties. 2. The art or process of embalming.

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  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • IMPARTIAL
    Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
  • IMPARTIALIST
    One who is impartial. Boyle.
  • PROCESSIONARY
    Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
  • EMBALMER
    One who embalms.
  • IMPARTANCE
    Impartation.
  • IMPARTIBILITY
    The quality of being impartible; communicability. Blackstone.
  • IMPARTER
    One who imparts.
  • EMBALMMENT
    The act of embalming. Malone.
  • IMPARTIALNESS
    Impartiality. Sir W. Temple.
  • IMPARTIALLY
    In an impartial manner.
  • IMPARTMENT
    The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed. It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. Shak.
  • PROCESSIONING
    A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
  • IMPARTIBLE
    Capable of being imparted or communicated.
  • PROCESS PLATE
    A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
  • PROCESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.
  • PROCESSIONER
    1. One who takes part in a procession. 2. A manual of processions; a processional. Fuller.
  • EMBALM
    Etym: 1. To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate , with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the
  • PROCESS
    Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis. (more info) 1. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. "Long process of time." Milton. The thoughts of men are widened with the
  • SELF-IMPARTING
    Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
  • ACID PROCESS
    That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
  • BARREL PROCESS
    A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
  • BASIC PROCESS
    A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
  • PAYNE'S PROCESS
    A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
  • FLOTATION PROCESS
    A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the
  • WELDON'S PROCESS
    A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.
  • THOMAS PROCESS
    See ABOVE
  • TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
    A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
  • WASHOE PROCESS
    The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.

 

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