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A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments.
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To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.
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Partially solid.
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By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
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The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.
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Puddled steel.
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Having the figure of a half sphere.
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An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.
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One who is half savage.
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Alt. of Semispherical
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A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.
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Half savage.
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Formed like a half spheroid.
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In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.
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A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.
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A half sound; a low tone.
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An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance.
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