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ss substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium.

ed carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.

pecific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.

An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain- bearing plants.

It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.CaO

To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. Waller.

The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]

A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.…

sparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.

A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously. This medley of philosophy and war. Addison. Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. W. Walsh.

liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.

To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.

A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4.

To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts. Hast thou no poison mixed Shak. I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations. Bacon.

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. Hooker.

A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida. Chaucer. Bacon.

eces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. -- Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. -- (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment…

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

, etc.; hence, any similar treatment using waters artificially charged with the essential ingredients of the natural mineral waters of Bad Nauheim. Hence, Nauheim bath, etc.

f the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.