Word Meanings - PAPYRINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

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• DILUTENESS
  The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
• SOAKING
  Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. -- Soak"ing*ly, adv.
• DILUTER
  One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
• PARCHMENTIZE
  To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.
• PAPERY
  Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.
• SOAKY
  Full of moisture; wet; soppy.
• SOAKER
  1. One who, or that which, soaks. 2. A hard drinker. South.
• IMITATION
  One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• DILUTE
  1. To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore. 2. To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to
• PARCHMENT
  pergamenum, L. pergamena, pergamina, fr. L. Pergamenus of or belonging to Pergamus an ancient city of Mysia in Asia Minor, where 1. The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a
• SOAK
  1. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt
• PAPER
  1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
• SOAKAGE
  The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.
• DILUTED
  Reduced in strength; thin; weak. -- Di*lut"ed*ly, adv.
• IMITATIONAL
  Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.
• SULPHURIC
  Derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the sulphurous compounds; as, sulphuric acid. Sulphuric acid. Sulphur trioxide ; -- formerly so called
• PAPERWEIGHT
  See N
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• WATER-SOAK
  To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
• ETHYLSULPHURIC
  Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid. Ethylsulphuric acid , an acid sulphate of ethyl, H.C2H5.SO4, produced as a thick liquid by the action of sulphiric acid on alcohol. It appears to be the active catalytic agent in the process
• ASOAK
  Soaking.
• BLOTTING PAPER
  A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
• NOTE PAPER
  Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• CASSE PAPER
  Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
• PYROSULPHURIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also disulphuric acid) obtained by distillation of certain sulphates, as a colorless, thick, oily liquid, H2S2O7 resembling sulphuric acid. It is used in the solution of indigo, in the manufacture of
• ALPHA PAPER
  A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• HYDROSULPHURIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, hydrogen and sulphur; as, hydrosulphuricacid, a designation applied to the solution of hydrogen sulphide in water.