saponaceous

• It requires attention that an excess of dryer renders oil saponaceous, is inimical to drying, and is otherwise injurious. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• The habit thus formed, neglected for even a single day, will make the mouth feel decidedly uncomfortable Cleansing the Teeth Preparations for cleansing the teeth and purifying the mouth should be free from all acids, and should be saponaceous or soapy, containing as one of the principal ingredients an alkali to neutralize the acids and destroy the animal and vegetable parasites which, as the microscope would show us, are in the secretions of almost every person's mouth A finely triturated powder having slight abrasive properties, but free from dangerous grit, should be used as the complement of a liquid. —  The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference
• By three or four days of most strict abstinence, and such simple nourishment as the thinnest gruel or barley water,--the latter made from the common field barley, very sparingly allowed, the patient is rendered convalescent The Natives of India profess to have found an antidote to, and cure for, hydrophobia in the reetah[7] berry, described as a saponaceous nut. —  Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
• Its root is saponaceous, and is pounded into a pulp and used instead of soap by the natives. —  Arizona Sketches
• That one little cake saponaceous can make —  Tobogganing on Parnassus

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