The growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"admixture" - a mixture (like menthol and vaseline) "vapor rub" - menthol-scented Vaseline. From Wordnik.com. [truckeratlas Diary Entry] Reference
The somewhat apparent homogenity among sud-saharan Africans is more a product of "admixture" than of simple homogeneity. From Wordnik.com. [Races as folk taxonomies without biological basis.] Reference
Other limestones are also known which contain an admixture of clay. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
Fijian 51\% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture). From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
In admixture it may safely be employed, as well as in fresco or enamel. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
By admixture with white, cadmium gives a series of beautiful clear tints. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
But in the admixture of the two cultures the influence of Eridu was predominant. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Let us remember that the coming American is to be an admixture of all foreign bloods. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
They outraged them by the admixture of kindred blood, and degeneracy was often the result. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Both quality and colour suffer from this admixture, the lace washing badly and wearing worse. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
We refer to the pink crystals of tourmaline, whose colour comes from a small admixture of lithium. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The compositions show an admixture of local myths and usages, not to mention Etruscan inscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Experience in the laws of digestion brings us back to the simple admixture found in the natural seed. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Like other ochres, they may be safely used in admixture with pigments which are themselves permanent. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Many other beautiful tints, unexceptionable in an artistic sense, are afforded by crimson lake on admixture. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
We were quite impressed by the advance in civilization which the little admixture of French blood had brought. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Repeat these processes three or four times to ensure thorough admixture of the contents of flask and receiver. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
It seems unlikely that this modern admixture of Asiatic and African blood represents the "Asiatic Ethiopian" of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Exceedingly brilliant, it is also utterly fugitive, destroyed by exposure or foul gas, and useless in admixture. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
And how comes it that spirits and fuliginous vapours can pass hither and thither without admixture or confusion?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
And generally speaking the admixture with praise of such faults as are not altogether base and ignoble stops envy. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Various shades of lilac and peach colours are produced by a careful admixture of the bright crimson, middle blue, and white. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
The admixture with sand of a considerable percentage of loam or clay is also not the unmixed evil it has been supposed to be. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The first is commonly produced by the admixture of quicklime with oxide of lead (litharge), carbonate of lead, or acetate of lead. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Petitions were frequently sent to the legislature asking that this admixture be penalized by law, but no such action was ever taken. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Where they occur interstratified with clays, still better soils are produced, the mutual admixture of the disintegrated rocks affording. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
With this it should not be compounded, but with other pigments it may safely be used in admixture, as far as its own colour is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
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