Word Meanings - ASPHALTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Asphaltic mastic or cement. See Asphalt, 2.

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• ASPHALTITE
  Asphaltic.
• ASPHALTIC
  Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous. "Asphaltic pool." "Asphaltic slime." Milton.
• 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.
• 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.
• ASPHALTUS
  See ASPHALT
• 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.
• ASPHALT; ASPHALTUM
  1. Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea,
• CEMENT STEEL
  Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.
• MASTICATER
  One who masticates.
• CEMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.
• CEMENTITIOUS
  Of the nature of cement. Forsyth.
• MASTICH
  See MASTIC
• ASPHALTE
  Asphaltic mastic or cement. See Asphalt, 2.
• 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.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• 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.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• INTERLACEMENT
  The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.
• DOLCE; DOLCEMENTE
  Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• RETINASPHALT; RETINASPHALTUM
  Retinite.
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.