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n. - A medium for oil-paints.

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Usage examples (3)
  • The same result may be obtained by the use of megilp, a mixture employed by artists.
  • As long as a painter is a painter merely, he should not be allowed to talk of anything but mediums and megilp, and on those subjects should be compelled to hold his...
  • Van Eyck's manner) and those painted with oil alone, or with the modern megilp, (oil and mastic varnish,) is so well known that it is scarcely necessary to allude to it.
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