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• PASTE (O. Fr. paste, modern pate, Late Lat. pasta, whence also in Span., Port. and Ital., from Gr. 1r&vrrl or 1raara, barley porridge, or salted pottage, ir&ao'ety, to sprinkle with salt)

PASTE (O. Fr. paste, See also:

• MODERN

modern pate, See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. pasta, whence also in Span., See also:

• PORT

Port. and Ital., from Gr. 1r&vrrl or 1raara, See also:

• BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley See also:

• PORRIDGE (an altered form of " pottage," Fr. pelage, soup, that which is cooked in a pot)

porridge, or salted pottage, ir&ao'ety, to sprinkle with See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

salt)  , a mixture or See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of a soft plastic consistency . The See also:

• TERM

term is applied to substances used for various purposes, as e.g. in See also:

• COOKERY (Lat. coquus, a cook)

cookery, a mixture of See also:

• FLOUR

flour and See also:

• WATER

water with See also:

• LARD (Fr. lard, from Lat. laridum, bacon fat, related to Gr. Naptvos fat, Napos dainty or sweet)

lard, See also:

• BUTTER (Lat. butyrum, Gr. 0obrvpov, apparently connected with $ous, cow, and rvpbs, cheese, but, according to the New English Dictionary, perhaps of Scythian origin)

butter or See also:

• SUET (M. Eng. sewet, a diminutive of O. Fr. seu, suis, mod. suif, lard, from Lat. sebum, or sebum, tallow, grease, probably allied to sago, soap)

suet, for making pies and pastry, or of flour and water boiled, to which See also:

• STARCH

starch or other ingredients to prevent souring are added, forming an adhesive for the affixing of See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall-See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper, See also:

• BILL

bill-posting and other purposes . In technical See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, the term is also applied to the prepared See also:

• CLAY (from O. Eng. claeg, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Klei)
• CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS (1810-1903)
• CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
• CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)
• CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)

clay which forms the See also:

• BODY

body in the manufacture of pottery and See also:

• PORCELAIN

porcelain (see See also:

• CERAMICS, or KERAMICS (Gr. KEpapos, earthenware)

CERAMICS) and to- the specially prepared See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass, known also as " strass," from which See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation gems are manufactured . This latter must be the purest, most transparent and most highly refractive glass that can be prepared . These qualities are comprised in the highest degree in a See also:

• FLINT
• FLINT, AUSTIN (1812-1886)
• FLINT, or FLTNTSHTRE (sir Gallestr)
• FLINT, ROBERT (1838- )
• FLINT, TIMOTHY (1780-1840)

flint glass of unusual See also:

• DENSITY (Lat. densus, thick)

density from the large percentage of See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead it contains . Among various mixtures regarded as suitable for strass the following is an example: powdered See also:

• QUARTZ

quartz 300 parts, red lead 470, potash (purified by See also:

• ALCOHOL

alcohol) 163, See also:

• BORAX (sodium pyroborate or sodium biborate)

borax 22, and See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white See also:

• ARSENIC (symbol As, atomic weight 75.0)

arsenic x See also:

• PART

part by See also:

• WEIGHT

weight . See also:

• SPECIAL

Special precautions are taken in the melting . The finished colourless glass is used for imitation diamonds; and when employed to imitate coloured See also:

• PRECIOUS (O. Fr. precios, mod. precieux, Lat. pretiosus, of high value or price, pretium)

precious stones the strass is melted up with various metallic oxides . Imitation gems are easily distinguished from real stones by their inferior hardness and by chemical tests; they may generally be detected by the comparatively warm sensation they communicate to the See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue .