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Definition of Depilatories
1. depilatory [n] - See also: depilatory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depilatories
Literary usage of Depilatories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"These defects are observable in the finished article in the marking or breaking
of the grain, pock marks, pin holes, weak grain, etc. depilatories. ..."
2. The Standard Formulary: A Collection of Nearly Five Thousand Formulas for by Albert Ethelbert Ebert, A. Emil Hiss (1904)
"In using these depilatories they should be made into thin ... Too long contact
of depilatories with the skin should be avoided, as they are liable to cause ..."
3. The All-around specialist by Joseph Riley McOscar (1904)
"depilatories Many drugs are used for this purpose, but their action is the mere
burning off of the hair and having no effect on the roots whatever. ..."
4. Beauty--its Attainment and Preservation by Butterick Publishing Company (1892)
"DYES, BLEACHING LIQUIDS, CURLING FLUIDS AND MIXTURES, POMADES AND depilatories.
GRAY hair is not always the result of years, for young heads are frequently ..."
5. The Care of the Body by Francis Cavanagh (1907)
"Moustache—Beards—Barber's itch—Various depilatories. THE police courts, poor-houses,
and rivers afford us doleful testimony of the importance that is ..."
6. Quarterly Compendium of Medical Science by D. G. Brinton (1884)
"depilatories. New Remedies, Oct., 1883, says: Sprinkle over 100 parts of good
quick-lime, about 50 parts of hot ..."
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