| 单词 | yellow liquor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow liquor a. A liquid or a prepared solution used as a wash or bath, and in many processes in the industrial arts, e.g. in Tanning, the ooze or tan-water. iron liquor, red liquor, yellow liquor (see quot. 18391). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > [noun] > liquids intinction1559 liquor1583 steep-water1838 sweet-water1885 process water1927 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F3v The shoomaker liquoreth his leather, with waterish liquor, kittchen stuffe, and all kinde of baggage mingled togither. 1611 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 161 Paide for wodd and coles for the boylinge of the lecker to the same, xijd. 1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 292 The sole invention for dipping of cloth, hats, scarfes, &c. in a certain liquor that shal preserve them to keep out rain. 1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 14 My Liquor's being then so strong and oleous, that I durst not venture to liquor the Furniture. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 307/1 The hides are then put into a pit of strong liquor called ooze or wooze, prepared..by infusing ground bark in water. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 223 The pyrolignite of iron called iron liquor in this country, is the only mordant used in calico-printing for black, violet, puce, and brown colours. The acetate of alumina, prepared from pyrolignous acid, is much used by the calico-printers under the name of red or yellow liquor, being employed for these dyes. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1209 Some finely clarified syrup, made from loaf sugar, called liquor by the refiners, is poured..upon the base of each cone. 1883 B. W. Richardson Field of Dis. 492 In the further process of finishing the snuff..there is what is called sifting ‘the shorts’, preparatory to adding the ‘liquors’, viz. salt and water to make weight, and scents to give perfume. < as lemmas |
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