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n. - Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.

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Usage examples (5)
  • "Fourthly, that the first of these liquors in a mixture of the alkali and igneous parts of quick-lime with the sulphureous substance of arsenick; for the orpin is a sort...
  • In choral ser - vice when I liear — the pcalini; orpin blow To llio full-toiccil clioir beiuw I: i srr\icc liiL, h: inJ aiilhcm clear/
  • "This last effect does likewise proceed from the defacing liquor; for because upon the digestion of quicklime and orpin, it is a thing impossible for some of the...
  • "There is one thing more to be observed, which is, that the infusion of quick-lime and orpin be newly made, because otherwise it will not have force enough to penetrate.
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