Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or operation of grinding or rubbing a solid substance to a fine impalpable powder. A mortar and pestle are commonly used in the process, and it is completed by allowing the coarser particles to settle in water, then decanting the latter, letting it stand till the fine powder has fallen to the bottom, and finally pouring off the water. In the chemical analysis of minerals this process is repeated until the mineral has been reduced to a sufficient degree of fineness, the coarser part being subjected to further pulverization after each separation by the aid of the water.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or operation of levigating.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or operation of levigating.
Etymologies
- Latin levigatio a smoothing: compare French lévigation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“RACE GRADE: B- Over five years after the famous "levigation," Charlotte's new asphalt has yet to deliver us the legendary races of old.”
“Finally I discarded altogether the use of fresh white of egg, and had recourse to dry powdered albumen, prepared by drying in a steam oven and levigation in a mortar.”
“In this state it was called _Giallolino di fornace_, and was introduced as a pigment for artists, under the erroneous conception that vitrification gives permanence to colours, when in truth it only increases the difficulty of levigation, and injures their texture for working.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“It is a sulphuret of mercury, which previous to levigation is called Cinnabar; and is found native in quicksilver mines, as well as produced artificially.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“_Fineness of texture_ is produced by extreme grinding and levigation.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“_Chocolate Lead_, or Marrone Red, is a pigment prepared by calcining oxide of lead with about a third of copper oxide, and reducing the compound to a uniform tint by levigation.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Ayatollah's list
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Old Pharmacy, etc.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
There. I think I've convinced myself.
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
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