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Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.

schist characterized by the presence of hydromica. It often has a silky luster and almost soapy feel.

Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.

soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphus powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anæstesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quilaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.…

A hydrous silicate of magnesia and aluminia. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.

A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil. [Written also saponule.] [Obs.]

wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing.

The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.

Being of the nature of soap; soapy; cleansing; detersive.

Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.

Quality or state of being soapy.

A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety. Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- calle…