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Petrolatum :: Petrolatum (n.) A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments..

Sarcolemma :: Sarcolemma (n.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

Fossette :: Fossette (n.) A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea..

Devitrify :: Devitrify (v. t.) To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

Spare :: Spare (a.) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty..

Prism :: Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc..

Translucent :: Translucent (a.) Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.

Transparency :: Transparency (n.) That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it..

Aquarelle :: Aquarelle (n.) A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors..

Mica :: Mica (n.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer..

Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones..

Isinglass :: Isinglass (n.) A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish glue..

Humite :: Humite (n.) A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine..

Liquid :: Liquid (a.) Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air..

Spare :: Spare (v. t.) Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet..

Opaque :: Opaque (a.) Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance..

Glassy :: Glassy (a.) Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep..

Hyaloid :: Hyaloid (a.) Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye..

Lucid :: Lucid (n.) Clear; transparent.

Diaphanoscope :: Diaphanoscope (n.) A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens..

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