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Wax :: Wax (n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance..

Thallus :: Thallus (n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens..

Respirator :: Respirator (n.) A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors..

Mucamide :: Mucamide (n.) The acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance..

Helleborin :: Helleborin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin..

Rub :: Rub (v. t.) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.

Cutin :: Cutin (n.) The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork..

Polymerism :: Polymerism (n.) The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances..

Artiad :: Artiad (a.) Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder.

Hypostatize :: Hypostatize (v. t.) To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance..

Semifluid :: Semifluid (n.) A semifluid substance.

Anemonic :: Anemonic (a.) An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin..

Tunicin :: Tunicin (n.) Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom..

Carnin :: Carnin (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin..

Salve :: Salve (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.

Methionic :: Methionic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic (thionic) acid derivative of methane, obtained as a stable white crystalline substance, CH2.(SO3H)2, which forms well defined salts..

Mordant :: Mordant (n.) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes..

Tetanic :: Tetanic (n.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions..

Powder :: Powder (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust..

Attrition :: Attrition (n.) The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion..

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