Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A depilatory composed of lime, orpiment, and water, and called in the United States Dispensatory “Atkinson's depilatory.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A mixture of
caustic lime andorpiment , ortersulphide ofarsenic , used in thedepilation ofhides .
Etymologies
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See rusma.
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