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‖ tabasheer|tæbəˈʃɪə(r)|
Also 6–7 (fr. Pg.) tabaxir, 8 (fr. Fr.) tabachir.
[Arab., Pers., Urdū tabāshīr chalk, mortar.]
A siliceous substance, white or translucent, occasionally formed in the joints of the bamboo, also called bamboo salt; used medicinally in the East.
1598W. Philip Linschoten 104/2 These Mambus have a certain matter within them..a very medicinable thing..much sought for by the Arabians, Persians, and Moores, that call it Tabaxiir. 1662J. Davies tr. Mendelslo's Trav. ii. 149 A sort of Canes..in which the Tabaxir is found. 1790P. Russell in Phil. Trans. Abr. XVI. 653 (heading) Account of the Tabasheer. 1826Brewster Let. in Home Life ix. (1869) 129, I have enclosed some specimens of Tabasheer, a substance of extreme rarity. 1829Nat. Philos. I. Gloss. (Usef. Knowl. Soc.), Tabasheer..is, originally, a transparent fluid in the jointed cavities of the bamboo cane. This fluid thickens,..until..it is converted into a white, or a bluish white solid, something like a small fragment of a shell. |