单词 | white pitch |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite pitch white pitch n. [compare post-classical Latin pix alba (14th cent. in a British glossarial source)] pitch that is pale (often pale yellow) in colour, spec. that obtained from the Norway spruce, Picea abies; cf. Burgundy pitch n. at Burgundy n. Compounds. ΚΠ a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 53 (MED) Tak..wax, white pik, that this spicers calles pix album, and fresch swyne grees. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f. 144 Take of oyle Olyue two ounces, of whyte pytche one ounce. a1654 N. Culpeper tr. J. Prevost Medicaments for Poor (1656) 115 Some make a Cerate of white Pitch only, which they cal Burgundy Pitch, which they hold for a secret and prefer it before Amoniacum. 1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. 73 White pitch, mixed with lamp black, forms black pitch. 1840 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 12 130 The trade in white pitch, in spite of the restrictions placed upon it by the administration, is more general. It is derived from the A[bies] excelsa by the method which you have indicated. 1911 J. G. McIntosh Manuf. Varnishes (ed. 2) III. 66 Another white pitch is obtained in Russia from Abies pichta or Abies Sibirica. 2010 P. Kennerley & D. Pearson Reed & Bush Warblers 181/2 (note) Mummy-brown was a pigment made from the ground-up remains of Egyptian mummies, both human and feline, white pitch and Myrrh. < as lemmas |
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