Or without argol or tartar, but I think their use is beneficial. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887] Reference
Steep in a fresh liquor of Barilla ash or soda plus sheep's dung, olive oil and white argol. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
Mordant by boiling with 4 lb. alum and 1 lb. argol, then dye with 6 lb. logwood, 6 oz. cudbear and 3 oz. indigo extract. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
Mordant the wool by boiling one and a half to two hours in a bath made with 5 lb. copperas, 2 lb. bluestone, 2 lb. alum, and 10 lb. argol. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
Alumina is applied either in the form of alum or of sulphate of alumina, argol or tartar being used as the assistant, oxide of alumina being deposited on the fibre. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
When the juice ferments in the manufacture of wine, this salt, being insoluble in alcohol, separates out on the sides of the cask and in this form is known as argol. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
It is not advisable to use more argol than is here given, for (p. 087) although a little excess will not materially affect the beauty or brilliancy of the resulting shade, yet such excess is wasteful, and makes the dyeing cost more than it otherwise would. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
Doctor since has been again to heer the argol-bargoling aboot the queen. From Wordnik.com. [The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family] Reference
ARCHI., Archibald Armstrong, jester to James I. and Charles I. ARGAI.E, argol, crust or sediment in wine casks. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
Clay, especially used in pottery. argillaceous, argillous, adj. containing clay; clay-like. argilliferous, adj. yielding or containing clay. argilloid, argol, argal. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Mr Bloom with his argol bargol. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Of which, while seated round their argol fires. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn and the Day Or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part I] Reference
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