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To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.

In the manner of a mordant.

tanding by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

A substance used as a mordant. Ure.

A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.

A group of artificial dyes with an affinity for vegetable fibers, so that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also benzidine dyes.

as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.

obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. Ure. -- French red rouge. -- French rice, amelcorn. -- French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. -- French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and l…

uthern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure.

ight green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron. -- Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. -- Green woodpecker (Zoöl.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); --…

A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. Ure.

The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

her substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.

m. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this pur…

etastannic acid. -- Stannic chloride, a thin, colorless, fuming liquid, SnCl4, used as a mordant in calico printing and dyeing; -- formerly called spirit of tin, or fuming liquor of Libavius. -- Stannic oxide, tin oxide, SnO2, produced artificially as a white amorphous powder, and occurring naturally in the mineral c…

substance, SnCl2.(H2O)2, obtained by dissolving tin in hydrochloric acid. It is used as a mordant in dyeing.

substantive. -- Substantive color, one which communicates its color without the aid of a mordant or base; -- opposed to adjective color.