| 单词 | animal size |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanimal size animal size n. now rare a size (size n.2 2) made from gelatin. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > size sizec1440 animal size1799 clear-cole1823 sizing1825 1799 Philos. Mag. 4 335 This size has no smell; while animal size, which putrefies so readily, always exhales a very disagreeable odour. 1887 Harper's Mag. June 124/2 If paper is to be ‘tub-sized’ as well as ‘engine-sized’, an animal size..is mixed with dissolved alum and placed in a tub or vat. 1928 Times 10 Feb. 15/4 Damp, lodging in these cracks, corrupts the animal size with which the pipeclay gesso is mixed. 1941 Advertising & Publishing Prod. Yearbk. 7 160 Animal size, gelatin used for surface-sizing rag-content grades of bond, ledger, and index papers. 1993 A. Sloan & K. Gwynn Trad. Paints & Finishes 67 Animal size can be kept in the refrigerator for up to a week before it goes bad, but it thickens on standing and adding water weakens it. < as lemmas |
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