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▪ I. megilp, n.|mɪˈgɪlp|
Forms: see quot. 1854; also majellup, macgellup, meggellup, McGilp, megilph, meguilp.
[Of obscure origin: the suggestion that it is from a surname is improbable.]
1. A preparation (consisting usually of a mixture of linseed oil with turpentine or mastic varnish) employed as a vehicle for oil colours.
1768[W. Donaldson] Life Sir B. Sapskull I. x. 116 The magilp was a nostrum known only to the ancients; but our modern artists..have labour'd..to find out this valuable mystery, and as they say with some degree of success... The magilp produces that warmth and serenity which characterizes the peculiar merit of Claude Lorraine. 1803Edin. Rev. II. 458 By the pulp, he meant to express some of the drying oils, or perhaps macgellup. a1821Farington in Wright Life R. Wilson (1824) 20 A magylph or majellup of linseed-oil and mastic varnish..was his [Richard Wilson's] usual vehicle. 1854Fairholt Dict. Art s.v. Gumption, note, In the different treatises on painting and in the colourmen's catalogues we find it thus variously named... Magelp, magelph, magilp, magylp, magylph, megilp, megelp, megylp, megylph, macgelp, macgelph, macgilp, macgilph, macgylph, macgulp, magulp, megulph, mygelp, mygelph, mygilp, mygilph, mygulp, mygulph.
2. A composition used by grainers (see quot.).
1827Whittock Painters' & Glaz. Guide i. ii. 21 The graining colour..is..a compound of various ingredients, mixed together to the consistence of thick treacle: this is called megilp.
▪ II. megilp, v.|mɪˈgɪlp|
[f. prec.]
trans. To varnish with megilp; to give to (oil colours) the quality which megilp is used to impart.
1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser i. 420/1 If it [water] is well mixed with the oil colour, it megilps it sufficiently to hold the combing. 1875E. A. Davidson House-paint., etc. 110 The work..must be varnished or ‘megilped’. |