menstruum
menstruum is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 38 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent. The proper menstruum to dissolve metal. Bacon. All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy. Note: The use is supposed to have originated in some notion of the old chemists about the influence of the moon in the preparation of dissolvents. Johnson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alkahest
- apozem
- colliquation
- colliquative
- colliquefaction
- condense
- deliquation
- deliquesce
- deliquescence
- deliquescent
- dissolution
- dissolve
- flux
- heat
- hold
- infusion
- liquate
- liquation
- liquefaction
- liquefiable
- liquefy
- liquescency
- liquescent
- liquid
- lixiviation
- lixivium
- melt
- melting
- precipitate
- rain
- render
- resolve
- run
- soluble
- solution
- solve
- solvent
- thaw
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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