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A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called

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A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc. 2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime. Cream of tartar. See under Cream. -- Tartar emetic , a double tartrate of potassium and basic antimony. It is a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and emetic. (more info) tartaro, LL. tartarum, LGr.

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    White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • WOOLEN
    1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent
  • MARKETABLENESS
    Quality of being marketable.
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • CRUSTAL
    Relating to a crust.
  • BLACKEN
    Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
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    In a consistent manner.
  • BLACK FLAGS
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    One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
  • TARTAREOUS
    Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous. (more info) 1. Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
  • CRUSTINESS
    1. The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness. 2. The quality of being crusty or surly. Old Christy forgot his usual crustiness. W. Irving.
  • MARKETSTEAD
    A market place. Drayton.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
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    A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
  • CREAM-SLICE
    A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • TRADE-MARK
    A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
  • SEAMARK
    Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
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    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
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    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
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    . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
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    Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

 

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