She prepared a saponaceous looking soup for dinner. From LearnThat.org.
Caustic potash, as we already observed, acts on the skin, and animal fibre, in virtue of its attraction for water and oil, and converts all animal matter into a kind of saponaceous jelly. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference
The cortical part of the root yields a milky saponaceous juice which is very bitter and slightly sedative. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
It requires attention that an excess of dryer renders oil saponaceous, is inimical to drying, and is otherwise injurious. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
As oxide of zinc does not readily form a saponaceous compound with fats or oil like white lead, the paint prepared with it and ordinary linseed oil does not dry or harden so rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The root, which is the saponaceous portion of the plant, resembles the onion, but possesses the quality of cleansing linen equal to any "oleic soap" manufactured by my friends Cornwall and Brother, of. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in California] Reference
It would appear that when the oxychloride is used as a paint, the oxide contained in it gives rise to an oleate of lead, and, in consequence of this saponaceous matter, is capable of spreading over an extended surface. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Now proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
The gate was open and a faint saponaceous exhalation struck upon my dilated nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Wenuses] Reference
R.A.M. an annual prize for the best vocal composition in praise of saponaceous abstergents. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914] Reference
Its root is saponaceous, and is pounded into a pulp and used instead of soap by the natives. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Sketches] Reference
The pulp was then washed and made into paper and thereafter dipped in a saponaceous compound. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
The oil or tallow is first boiled with a weak lye until the whole is formed into a saponaceous compound. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
I differ with him entirely about the Banns case, and, between ourselves, think he is oily and saponaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference
Color the grease very strongly with alkanet root, then proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
Nor would one say saponaceous for soapy, dyslogistic for uncomplimentary, or macrobian (or longevous) for long-lived. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
Then the process was repeated with the other hand, and a quart of the saponaceous mush was packed in the right hand pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 2] Reference
Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails? '. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages] Reference
The saliva is a saponaceous liquor, destitute of taste or smell, which is squeezed out from these glands, and mixed with the food during mastication. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
Running it down in a north-west direction for seven miles, we were at length stopped by a bank of white saponaceous clay, crossing the valley like a wall. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
It is a soft, saponaceous substance, not unpleasant to the taste, of a bluish color, and melts in the mouth, like the fat of cold meat, leaving the palate greasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
"The roots of the plant were esteemed to be diuretic, saponaceous, and resolvent, and to be powerful remedies for removing obstructions of the liver, and of the other viscera.". From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Anon the rev. clergyman, emerging from the vestry-room to the right, will pass along the front of this jungle to the prie-dieu, and so, framed in flowers, face the congregation with his saponaceous smile. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Burlesques] Reference
Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails?’. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
A blue tint; when it is required of a purple color we have merely to stain the white saponaceous cream with a mixture of vermilion and smalt to the shade desired. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
For verily no Broadway dandy could be more attentive to his own saponaceous curls than are some of the "Dandy. From Wordnik.com. [Social relations in our Southern States,] Reference
Alkaline salts combine with acids, forming neutral salts; with animal fat, antl oil, and vegetable oils, they form soaj), or a saponaceous matter, diffusible in water. From Wordnik.com. [A treatise, shewing the intimate connection that subsists between agriculture and chemistry, addressed to the cultivators of the soil, to the proprietors of fens and mosses, in Great Britain and Ireland; and to the proprietors of West India estates] Reference
That one little cake saponaceous can make. From Wordnik.com. [Tobogganing on Parnassus] Reference
Oils are rendered saponaceous by alkalis. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Will this be the case with saponaceous oils?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
The upper 21 parts were white and saponaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Without saponaceous aid. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893] Reference
17. saponaceous. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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