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Definition of Paraffined
1. paraffin [v] - See also: paraffin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraffined
Literary usage of Paraffined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technic: A Manual of Practical Procedures by Albert Sidney Morrow (1921)
"To R. and D the recipient's and donor's cannulae are connected by means of two
paraffined rubber tubes 1-?-£ inches (4 cm.) long. ..."
2. Wireless Telegraphy and High Frequency Electricity: A Manual Containing by Harry La Verne Twining, William Dubilier (1909)
"Take the paraffined string off the inside of the coils before taping them.
Wind coarse thread or string around each taped coil in the same way as the tape ..."
3. Telephone Construction: Installation, Wiring, Operation and Maintenance by William Hiram Radcliffe, Harry Cooke Cushing (1914)
"After being paraffined, the insulated conductors are bound FIG. 114.—Telephone
Switchboard for a Small Exchange together with cotton braid saturated in ..."
4. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"Eight lots were made of twenty fruit each and treated in the following manner:
Lot 1. Fruit clipped and rind paraffined. Lot 2. ..."
5. Agriculture in Other Lands (Great Britain, Denmark, Canada, South Africa by J. A. Kinsella (1906)
"The main points in their favour is the neat appearance of the cheese, the nice
smooth velvety rinds, and the good flavour which the bulk of the paraffined ..."
6. Bulletin by Bureau of Animal Industry, United States, United States Bureau of Animal Industry, New Hampshire Forestry and Recreation Commission (1912)
"... there is an increased yield of pasteurized-milk cheese when paraffined
corresponding to the increased yield observed in the same cheese when green. ..."
7. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1903)
"The paraffined cheese lost nothing by curing in cold-storage ; while thos" ...
Those not paraffined lost an average of 2.14 per cent, in cold storage, ..."
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