Torchon paper

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• Paper

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  [Writing] ...

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• Torchon lace

  ·- a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machin...

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• Alpha paper

  ·add. ·- A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin c...

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• Asthma paper

  ·add. ·- Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an ...

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• Blotting paper

  ·- A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written man...

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• Carborundum paper

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• Casse Paper

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• Joss paper

  ·add. ·- Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and...

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• Note paper

  ·- Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches. ...

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• Ozone paper

  ·add. ·- Paper coated with starch and potassium iodine. It turns blue when exposed to ozone. ...

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• Touch-paper

  ·noun Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, a...

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• Paper Buildings

  On the west side of King's Bench Walk, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory). First mention:...

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• Paper Street

  East out of Redcross Street at No.49, in Cripplegate Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First mention: ...

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• paper scull

  A thin-scull'd foolish fellow. ...

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• paper-fish

  n. a Tasmanian name. See Bastard Trumpeter and Morwong. 1883. `Royal Commission on Fisheries of Ta...

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• ravel-paper

  Kent. A sort between white and brown, and called in the North whity-brown paper. ...

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• muster-paper

  A description of paper supplied from the dockyards, ruled and headed, for making ships' books. ...

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• phrase of paper

  Half a quarter of a sheet. See *vessel, physog. ...

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• vessels of paper

  Half a quarter of a sheet. ...

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• paper-bark tree

  or Paper-barked Tea-tree ,n. Called also Milk-wood (q.v.). Name given tothe species Melaleuca leuc...

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• phrase of paper

  See fraze. ...

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• vessel of paper

  See fraze. ...

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• whity-brown paper

  See ravel-bread before. ...

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• brown-paper warrant

  See warrant. ...

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• inside muster-paper

  A description of paper supplied from the dockyards, ruled and headed, for making ships' books. ...

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• outside muster-paper

  A paper with the outer part blank, but the inner portion ruled and headed; supplied from the dock ya...

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• protections, on paper

  , against impressment, were but little regarded. Yet seafaring men above 55, and under 18, were by s...

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