Bitumen

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.

II. Bitumen ·noun Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, ·etc. ·see Asphalt.

Related Words

bitumen
bĭtūmen, ĭnis, n. [cf. Sanscr. gatu, gum], bitumen , a kind of mineral pitch found in Palestine and ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
bitumen
bitūmen inis, n mineral pitch, bitumen: nigrum, V., H.: tenax, O. ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Bitumen
Gen. 11:3, R.V., margin, rendered in the A.V. "slime"), a mineral pitch. With this the ark was pitch...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Bitumen process
·add. ·- Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insol...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language