MORDANT
\mˈɔːdənt], \mˈɔːdənt], \m_ˈɔː_d_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of MORDANT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
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Serving to fix colors.
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Any corroding substance used in etching.
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Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
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Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
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To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
By Oddity Software
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Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
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Serving to fix colors.
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Any corroding substance used in etching.
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Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
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Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
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To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
By Noah Webster.
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A substance that serves to fix certain colors in dyeing; a substance to make gold leaf stick; a substance that eats into a surface.
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Having power to fix colors; sarcastic; biting.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A substance which has a chemical affinity for colouring matter, and serves to fix colours; a glue to make gold-leaf adhere.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Any substance employed to fix and give permanency or brilliancy to the colour produced by dye-stuffs; any adhesive matter by which gold-leaf is made to adhere.
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Serving to fix colours; biting; caustic.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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