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in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.…

One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish.

The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.

s a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenæa courbaril), and much used by varnish makers. Ure.

b over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure. -- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue…

fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. Goldsmith.

uminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.

r; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.

rbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ur

To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine. Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis, or Dammara, orientalis), yielding dammar.

n from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.

resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.

fera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.