Adragant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Adragant is a noun meaning (obsolete) Gum tragacanth.
Meaning
(obsolete) Gum tragacanth.
Example Sentences
3. Gum adragant.—The gum adragant […] flows from the adragant of Crete, a small shrub […]
From the second Sort Monsieur Tournefort says, the Gum Adragant or Dragon is produced in Crete; of which he gives the following Relation in his Voyage to the Levant : “We had (says he) the Satisfaction “of fully observing the Gum “Adragant […]
Make a color composed of brown red, and a little flat, or Venetian lake, previously grinded with gum adragant. Then, with a largish brush, take of that color and asperse your oiled marble with it, by striking the handle of the brush on your wrist, .
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include achate, grisamber, trewage, atrament, attargul, theriac.
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