Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A natural grease formed from dried perspiration found in the fleece of sheep, used as a source of potash.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The natural grease of wool, consisting of insoluble soapy matter combined with a soluble salt containing from 15 to 33 per cent. of potash, which may be extracted commercially from the wool-washings.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry, dated A substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas.
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, from suer, to sweat, from Latin sūdāre; see sweid- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“First there is a small quantity of dirt; there is what is called the suint, a kind of soapy matter, which can be removed by washing in hot water.”
“Maumene and Rogelet patented the use of the water in which wool has been washed as a source of potash, and at present the extraction of potash from _suint_ is practiced in France on a large scale.”
“This _suint_ contains always about 52 per cent. of residue when ignited.”
“Wool in its unwashed state contains a considerable proportion of what is termed _suint_.”
“This, again, is not wholly a new process, for various attempts have been made to dissolve out the yolk, or _suint_, or greasy matter from unwashed wool, as it comes from the back of the sheep.”
“And this estimate does not include the fats of the _suint_, which are worth an even greater sum.”
“It is easily seen that _suint_ forms a very important constituent of raw wool.”
“It has not the composition of ordinary _suint_, inasmuch as it contains no carbonate of potash, and indeed little mineral matter of any kind.”
“By this method all the wool fat, suint, etc., of the wool find their way into the soap liquors.”
“The wool suint consists largely of the potash soaps of oleic and stearic acids.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘suint’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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S is for sionnach
shunamitism, snipsnapsnorum, skookum, scabilonian, sacheverell, sandapile, saulie, schnappszahl, sophrosyne, snup, snurl, snurt and 110 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
Tweets
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mollusque I undressed and laid my outer clothes near the fire as well. They produced the scorched odors of woods and suint that mixed with those of the priest.
--Philippe Claudel, 2007, By a Slow River, p. 110 Aug 6, 2010
hernesheir Natural grease formed from dried perspiration found in the fleece of sheep, used as a source of potash.
Feb 20, 2010