Definition of Sandarach

1. Noun. A brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes.

Exact synonyms: Sandarac
Substance meronyms: Callitris Quadrivalvis, Sandarac, Sandarac Tree, Tetraclinis Articulata
Generic synonyms: Natural Resin

Definition of Sandarach

1. n. Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandarach

sandaled
sandaliform
sandaling
sandalled
sandalling
sandalpunk
sandals
sandalwood
sandalwood family
sandalwood oil
sandalwood tree
sandalwoods
sandarac
sandarac tree
sandarach (current term)
sandaracs
sandbag
sandbagged
sandbagger
sandbaggers
sandbagging
sandbags
sandbank
sandbanks
sandbar
sandbar shark
sandbars
sandbath
sandbaths

Literary usage of Sandarach

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
""We have already mentioned nearly all the properties of sandarach.31 It is found hoth in gold-mines and in silver- mines. The redder it is, the more pure ..."

2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"It is much more serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines. CHAPTER PURPLE 1. I SHALL now begin to speak of purple, which exceeds all the ..."

3. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER XII WHITE LEAD, VERDIGRIS, AND ARTIFICIAL sandarach 1 ... It is much more serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines. ..."

4. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"White lead on being heated in an oven changes its colour on the fire, and becomes sandarach. This was discovered as the result of an accidental fire. ..."

5. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"sandarach is a dry and hard resin, usually met with in transparent granules of the size of a pea. When good, it is of a bright yellow colour, ..."

6. Notes on Building Construction by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1879)
"sandarach is a substance said to exude from the juniper tree. It resembles lac, but is softer, ... METHYLATED SPIRITS OF WINE ' for lac and sandarach. ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"sandarach ; a gum resin, which oozes spontaneously from the old trunks of the common juniper (juniperus communie), and which is used in considerable ..."

8. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"... sandarach is procured in warm countries from Juniperus communis. Appears in small, pale-yellow, transparent, hard, and brittle corns of bitter, ..."

9. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
""We have already mentioned nearly all the properties of sandarach.31 It is found hoth in gold-mines and in silver- mines. The redder it is, the more pure ..."

10. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"It is much more serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines. CHAPTER PURPLE 1. I SHALL now begin to speak of purple, which exceeds all the ..."

11. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER XII WHITE LEAD, VERDIGRIS, AND ARTIFICIAL sandarach 1 ... It is much more serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines. ..."

12. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"White lead on being heated in an oven changes its colour on the fire, and becomes sandarach. This was discovered as the result of an accidental fire. ..."

13. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"sandarach is a dry and hard resin, usually met with in transparent granules of the size of a pea. When good, it is of a bright yellow colour, ..."

14. Notes on Building Construction by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1879)
"sandarach is a substance said to exude from the juniper tree. It resembles lac, but is softer, ... METHYLATED SPIRITS OF WINE ' for lac and sandarach. ..."

15. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"sandarach ; a gum resin, which oozes spontaneously from the old trunks of the common juniper (juniperus communie), and which is used in considerable ..."

16. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"... sandarach is procured in warm countries from Juniperus communis. Appears in small, pale-yellow, transparent, hard, and brittle corns of bitter, ..."

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