Word Meanings - PACHONTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• GUTTATRAP
  The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.
• GUTTA
  One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop. Gutta serena Etym: , amaurosis.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• GUTTA-PERCHA
  A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• GUTTATED
  Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots. Bailey.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• ISONANDRA
  A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• GUTTATE
  Spotted, as if discolored by drops.
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• ADULTERATE
  adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who 1. To defile by adultery. Milton. 2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• PREOBTAIN
  To obtain beforehand.