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Definition of Fish glue
1. Noun. Gelatinous substance obtained by boiling skins fins and bones of fish.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fish Glue
Literary usage of Fish glue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"fish glue is made by boiling the heads, fins, and tails of fish at 110° C.
It has very weak jellying properties and is generally made into liquid glue, ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1892)
"Where a contract to avoid competition and regulate prices, between corporations
manufacturing fish-glue under a patent supposed by both of them to be valid, ..."
3. Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorus, Cements, Pastes, and Mucilages by Ferdinand Dawidowsky (1905)
"Considerable quantities of fish glue are produced on the Norwegian coast from
waste obtained in the preparation of codfish. The fish when caught are cut ..."
4. The Painter and Varnisher's Guide: Or, A Treatise, Both in Theory and by Pierre François Tingry (1804)
"... which appear to be essentially neccessary in such machines ; but this varnish
is very long in drying. ISINGLASS, fish glue. Isinglass, fish glue ..."