Crossword-Solution: COLOPHONY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Colophony | n. | Rosin. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “COLOPHONY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| rosin | 2 answers |
| Resin | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEAZME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COLOPHONY (5)
Keep each thing separate; and melt the wax, and then put in the incense and then the colophony, make a mixture of it and put it on the sore place.
The most celebrated resin bears the name of mani; and of this we saw masses of several hundred-weight, resembling colophony and mastic.
The reddish skin of the torso, as the air came in contact with it, assumed a bluish bloom, and there was visible on the side the cut through which had been drawn the entrails, and from which escaped, like the sawdust of a ripped-up doll, the sawdust of aromatic wood mixed with resin in grains that looked like colophony.
For he went about the work with such diligence that he used to make the coarse rough-cast of lime with a mixture of mastic and colophony, which, after melting it all together over the fire and applying it to the wall, he would then cause to be smoothed over with a mason's trowel made red-hot, or rather white-hot, in the fire; and his works have therefore been able to resist the damp and to preserve their colour very well without suffering any change.
Etym: [A variant of resin.] Defn: The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.