MASTIC
\mˈastɪk], \mˈastɪk], \m_ˈa_s_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of MASTIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.
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A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc.
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A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; - called also, mastic tree.
By Oddity Software
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A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.
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A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc.
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A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; - called also, mastic tree.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A resinous exudation of Pistacia lentiscus. It is no longer regarded as having any important therapeutic virtues, though it is a constituent of pills of aloes and mastic. It consists of a volatile oil and two resins, mastichic acid and masticin. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
