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Putty-like cement used as adhesive or filler
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mastic
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mastic is a resin obtained from the mastic tree ( Pistacia lentiscus ). In pharmacies and nature shops, it is called "Arabic gum" (not to be confused with gum arabic ) and " Yemen gum ". In Greece , it is known as the "tears of Chios ," being traditionally ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mastic \Mas"tic\, n. [F., fr. L. mastiche, mastichum, Gr. ?, fr. ? to chew, because of its being used in the East for chewing.] [Written also mastich .] (Bot.) A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia ( Pistacia Lentiscus ), growing upon the islands and ...
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Population (2000): 15436 Housing Units (2000): 4732 Land area (2000): 4.480560 sq. miles (11.604596 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.339841 sq. miles (0.880183 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.820401 sq. miles (12.484779 sq. km) FIPS code: 46074 Located within: ...
Usage examples of mastic.
The walls are covered with excreta chemically similar to the pile excretions, which forms a mastic to reinforce the tunnel against .
He held the pestle upright on the table, chewed his mastic and ground his medicaments in the mortar till the late hours, deep in care.
But she reclined on soft cushions behind the lattice of the balcony on the street, drinking sherbet, chewing mastic and eyeing the passers-by.
He held a fly whisk and moved it languidly from side to side to keep the flies from the little bags of cloves, nutmeg, mastic and cinnamon and the little glasses of laurel and myrtle oil.
I passed completely empty canvases on easels, canvases poked from behind in a few places by pegs, so that the sheetlike surfaces were broken into geometric shapes, and I passed gray-brown-green sackcloth forms in frames, forms whose material the eye could recognize only very close up -- shreds of netting stuck under mastic or glue, iron fillings, rubber shells -- but at the next work I stopped.
He held the pestle upright on the table, chewed his mastic and ground his medicaments in the mortar till the late hours, deep in care.
He plays draughts with the Metropolitan, they drink mastic, eat baklava and sit up together all night whispering secrets!
Sebastiano had mixed mastic and resin with the lime, brewed them together, applied the plaster with a mason's trowel heated over fires.