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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plastic material, a substitute for horn, made from blood with the addition of sundry vegetable and mineral materials.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A material made from
sawdust and theblood of slaughteredanimals , used in the late nineteenth century fordoorknobs ,buttons , etc.
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