It is what chemists would call the 'menstruum' in which all our qualities are worked and made manifest, which holds them together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

“Prandy was the best menstruum for onions and sheese.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference

Impure spirits of 40° Gay-Lussac, and not water, should be used as a menstruum for the salt of copper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

These colloids appear to be separated by amyl alcohol in virtue of their greater solubility in that menstruum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference

Because of the size of the organisms, they may be more economically harvested out of the fermentation menstruum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 22] Reference

While most tinctures are in a ratio of one part herb to five parts menstruum, extracts are more concentrated, as much as one to one.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference

The menstruum may be water, to which a little spirits and a few drops of oil of rosemary to increase its stimulating qualities have been added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

She is the menstruum in which letter and spirit dissolve and mingle into unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

Aqua Regia is a compound menstruum invented by the alchemists for dissolving gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype] Reference

But Ikey was timid, and his hopes remained insoluble in the menstruum of his backwardness and fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Million] Reference

The aromatics and bitter tonics are useful; gentian and tea in warm decoction form a useful menstruum for other remedies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

Lastly, THAT as this fluid state had not been the effect of solution in a menstruum, it must have been fluidity from heat and fusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical)] Reference

Tilebein relates that the distilled water is excessively acrid, and on cooling, deposits crystals, which are almost insoluble in any menstruum.    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

Chemistry, when alchemists sought in their concoctions a panacea for all human evils, and in their crucibles an alkalest or universal menstruum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws] Reference

Water is necessary, not only for digestion, nutrition, and all functional processes of life, but it is indispensable as a menstruum for medicinal substances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

In the menstruum of this man's wit, the past and the present ages, and their religions, politics, and modes of thinking, are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Men] Reference

Are these such as will correspond to the dissolving power of water, and to the state in which those substances might be left by the separation of their menstruum?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical)] Reference

This operation is repeated until all the organic matter soluble in this menstruum is removed; which is accomplished as soon as the carbonate of soda solution comes off colorless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel] Reference

A surplus when the menstruum is insufficient to suspend it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

A large cup, made of a cocoa-nut shell, with brandy, and, drinking it off, told us, "Prandy was the best menstruum for onions and sheese.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference

Alcohol is the best menstruum.    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

The menstruum that dissolves all matter—thou.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 825. Sunrise by Sidney Lanier. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

The menstruum that dissolves all matter -- thou.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poets of the South] Reference

20; his menstruum (monthly allowance), i.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference