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Turpentine is the third and last EP by the Argentinian band Turpentine (band) . It was released on October 2007 and is available online as well as commercially, just like their first and second EP. It is largely instrumental, the only two songs that contains ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turpentine \Tur"pen*tine\, n. [F. t['e]r['e]bentine, OF. also turbentine; cf. Pr. terebentina, terbentina, It. terebentina, trementina; fr. L. terebinthinus of the turpentine tree, from terebinthus the turpentine tree. Gr. ?, ?. See Terebinth ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. obtained from conifers (especially pines) [syn: gum terpentine ] volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally [syn: oil of turpentine , spirit of turpentine , turps ]
Wiktionary
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n. a volatile essential oil obtained from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; it is a complex mixture of monoterpenes; it is used as a solvent and paint thinner vb. (context transitive English) To drain resin from (a tree) for use in making turpentine. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "semi-liquid resin of the terebinth tree," terbentyn , from Old French terebinte "turpentine" (13c.), from Latin terebintha resina "resin of the terebinth tree," from Greek rhetine terebinthe , from fem. of terebinthos (see terebinth ). By 16c. ...
Usage examples of turpentine.
She never mentioned turpentine or masticke, or a drop of wax, or resin to give the whole a stiffness, or the quantities.
Then one of you will be bright scarlet to the end of his days, as the reddle never comes off the skin at all, and the other will have to soak in turpentine before the dye will consent to move.
Two of the cadavers Larch had worked with in medical school had been victims of a rather common household aborticide of the time: turpentine.
So he fished her out with his cane, and he took some rags, and some turpentine, and he cleaned off the pink paint as best he could, and then he took Brighteyes into the house, and the little guinea pig girl put on clean clothes, and then she looked as good as ever, except that there were some spots of pink paint on her nose.
If the discharges contain much blood, a flannel cloth moistened with the spirits of turpentine should be laid over the lower part of the abdomen, and kept there until slight irritation is produced.
The oak wainscoting glowed golden with long and loving application of beeswax and turpentine even in this pallid early spring sunlight, while higher upon those same walls fanciful plasterwork ornamentation spread its delicate lacelike tracery against the darker cream of the lime-washed background.
Face, neck and hands became covered with mixture of lampblack and turpentine, forming a coating as thick as heavy brown paper, and absolutely irremovable by water alone.
He reeked of fire: smoke and pinesap and scorched cloth, and the bitter tang of turpentine.
The vents and all screw-holes are to be stopped with plugs made of soft wood or oakum dipped in tallow, after they have been protected by an application of beeswax dissolved in spirits of turpentine, or other composition that may be directed by the Bureau.
He made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of me in twenty-four hours or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises.
His canvases are missing, leaving a faint aroma of turpentine to mark their passing.
Touch, although she just said that the best medicine for sheep or man was a dose of turpentine, a good cussin' and a kick.
They declined to see the case, but got rid of us by giving us a bottle of turpentine, with directions to pour it upon the ulcers to kill the maggots.
These instruments of destruction are carefully described: "Having prepared fortie or fiftie round-bellied earthen pots, and filled them with hand Gunpowder, then covered them with Pitch, mingled with Brimstone and Turpentine, and quartering as many Musket-bullets, that hung together but only at the center of the division, stucke them round in the mixture about the pots, and covered them againe with the same mixture, over that a strong sear-cloth, then over all a goode thicknesse of Towze-match, well tempered with oyle of Linseed, Campheer, and powder of Brimstone, these he fitly placed in slings, graduated so neere as they could to the places of these assemblies.
An ointment made by boiling the herb in olive oil with Adder's Tongue and thickening the strained liquid with wax and resin and turpentine was considered to be very valuable for application to sores and ulcers.