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Word Meanings - BASILICON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

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  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • COMPOSITOUS
    Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • PITCHERFUL
    The quantity a pitcher will hold.
  • OINTMENT
    That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent. (more info) anoint, L. ungere, unguere; akin to Skr. a, and to G. anke (in Switzerland) butter. The first t in the E. word is due to the
  • PITCHINESS
    Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
  • PITCHFORK
    A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
  • OLIVERIAN
    An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • OLIVED
    Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.
  • OLIVEWOOD
    The wood of the olive. An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
  • COMPOSURE
    1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
  • COMPOSSIBLE
    Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
  • 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.
  • PITCHWORK
    The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • 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.
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • RESINATE
    Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
  • INDECOMPOSABLENESS
    Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.

 

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