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aquafortis
‖ aquafortis (ˌeɪkwəˈfɔːtɪs) [L.; = strong water.] 1. The early scientific, and still the popular, name of the Nitric Acid of commerce (dilute HNO3), a powerful solvent and corrosive.1601 Weever Mirr. Martyrs D j, For inke strong aqua⁓fortis. 1626 Bacon Sylva §789 Dissolve the Iron in the Aqua-Forti...
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aquafortist
aquafortist (ˌeɪkwəˈfɔːtɪst) [f. prec. after words in -ist.] One who makes etchings or engravings by means of aquafortis.1880 Mag. Art Dec. 77 As an aquafortist he was worthy to rank with Rembrandt.
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John Kay (caricaturist)
In 1785, induced by the favour which greeted certain attempts of his to etch in aquafortis, he took down his barber's pole and opened a small print shop
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To the Person Sitting in Darkness
He put aquafortis on all the raw places, and when it was finished he himself doubted the wisdom of printing it.
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dyspnœa
‖ dyspnœa Path. (dɪspˈniːə) [L. dyspnœa, a. Gr. δύσπνοια difficulty of breathing, f. δύσπνοος, f. δυσ- (dys-) + πνοή breath, breathing.] Difficulty of breathing; laborious breathing.1681 tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Dyspnœa, a pursiness or shortness of breathing. 1707 Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watc...
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Valentin Elizariev
Shevelevich (Minsk, TRO Soyuz)
2008 – "The Shklov Aquafortis" a chronicle documentary by Yu.
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nitric
nitric, a. Chiefly Chem. (ˈnaɪtrɪk) [ad. F. nitrique (app. first in acide nitrique, 1787): see nitre n. and -ic.] Of or pertaining to, derived from, nitre. (In Chem. distinguished from nitrous: see -ic 1 b.) 1. a. nitric acid, a highly corrosive and caustic acid (HNO3), which is usually obtained by ...
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strong water
strong water [Rendering of med.L. aqua fortis.] † 1. = aquafortis 1, 2. Obs.1580 Blundevil Curing Horses Dis. cviii. 50 It shall be good..to wash all his taile with Aqua fortis, or strong water, made in this sort. 1604 E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. iv. 215 They refine it [gold] likewise...
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All Religions are One
his marginal subjects of embellishments in outline upon the copper-plate with an impervious liquid, and then eating the plain parts or lights away with aquafortis
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fixes
† ˈfixes, n. pl. Obs. [? f. fix v.; or a corruption of *fæxes, Eng. pl. of fæx: cf.fæces.] (See quot.) The discrepancy of the explanations in the two quots. is prob. due to some error.1594 Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 79 Aquafortis, whose faeces (fixes the Goldsmiths vnproperly tearme them) haue beene first...
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biting
▪ I. biting, vbl. n. (ˈbaɪtɪŋ) [f. bite v. + -ing1.] 1. a. The action of the vb. bite in its various senses.c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 33 A þer [in helle] is waning and graming..and feonda bitinga. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 37 Bytynge, morsura. 1534 Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) E viii, It is like the bit...
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commixtion
commixtion Obs. except in senses 5, 6. (kəˈmɪkstɪən, -tʃən) Also β. 5 commyxcion, -yxyon, 5–6 -yccyon, -yctyon, 5–7 commixion. [ad. L. commixtiōn-em (n. of action f. commixt- ppl. stem of commiscēre to commix), or a. its Fr. repr. commixtion (15th c. in Littré). The early variant commixcion (with th...
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needle
▪ I. needle, n. (ˈniːd(ə)l) Forms: α. 1–2 nǽdl, nédl, (1 naeðl, nethl, netl), 3–6 nedle, 4–5 nedel, (5 -ele), 4–6 nedill, (5 -il, -ille, -yl, -ylle, 6 -yll), 5–6 nedell, nydel, (5 nydle), 6 neidil, neadle; 5–6 needell, 6–7 needel, (6 -il), 6– needle. β. 3–7 neld(e, 4 neelde, 6–9 neeld, 6 neilde, 8 n...
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wall
▪ I. wall, n.1 (wɔːl) Forms: 1 weall, weal, wall, 3–7 wal, walle, 4–7 wale, 4–6 Sc. vall, 6 Sc. val(e, (5 whalle,) 6 waule, (wawle), 8–9 Sc. wa', 3– wall. [OE. wall (WS. weall), corresp. to OFris. wal, OS. wal(l, (M)LG., (M)Du. wal, MHG. wal from MLG. (mod.G. wall), a Saxon and Anglo-Frisian adoptio...
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There is No Natural Religion
his marginal subjects of embellishments in outline upon the copper-plate with an impervious liquid, and then eating the plain parts or lights away with aquafortis
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