Word Meanings - PARAFFINPARAFFINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins. Note: In the present chemical usage this word is spelt paraffin, but in commerce it is commonly spelt paraffine. Native paraffin. See Ozocerite. -- Paraffin series. See Methane series, under Methane.

• Belgian
  Of or pertaining to Belgium.
• Understudy
  To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
• Betumble
  To throw into disorder; to tumble.
• Beau
  A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.
• Bemock
  To mock; to ridicule.
• BEAUMONTAGUE
  A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
• Inertia
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called vis inertiae.
• Bedphere
  See Bedfere.
• Bepommel
  To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.
• UNDERPROPPER
  One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
• Strongylid
  Strongyloid.
• Begemmed
  of Begem
• Beslabber
  To beslobber.
• Underlaid
  Laid or placed underneath; also, having something laid or lying underneath.
• Bestial
  Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
• Actuation
  A bringing into action; movement.
• Belike
  It is likely or probably; perhaps.
• Undertow
  The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
• Bevile
  A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.
• Beautify
  To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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