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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, .... 
    Publication: New York : Harper & Brothers, 1838
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101526713
    ... of titanium ore. It is of a splendent velvet black colour. CRI'CO. Names compounded of this ... 2. Lydian stone, of a grayish-black and velvet-black colour. It is found frequently along with ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Dr. Chase's family physician, farrier, bee-keeper, and second receipt book : being an ... 
    Publication: Toledo : Chase Pub. Co., 1881
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63560770R
    ... so is one ofrhus typhinnm (stag-horn, or velvet sumac-the non poisonous sumacs have their fruit ... 1, with the rhus typhinum (stag-horn or velvet sumac), menispermum Canadensis (yel- low paiilla), and ampelopsis ( ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, .... 
    Publication: New York : Sold by Collins & Hannay ... [et al.], 1832
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101526711
    ... 8. Lydian stone, of a grayish-black and velvet-black colour. It is found frequently along with ... and torpid in- sensibility. See Mania. MELANITE. A velvet-black coloured mineral in roundish or crystallized grains, ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - A hand-book of industrial organic chemistry : adapted for the use of manufacturers, chemists, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1891
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/62420220R
    ... for a base for other silk fabrics like velvet or dyed in blacks. III. Products. A. Wool.— ... weft threads, which present a uniform glossy surface. Velvets are tissues in which the outer surface presents ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The American vegetable practice : or a new and improved guide to health, designed for the use ... 
    Publication: Boston, Hale, 1841
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64220920R
    ... too much rapidity. It has a soft or velvet-like appearance, and is of a pale pink ... away by the rain. 856. Stag-horn or Velvet Sumach—Rhus Typhinum. This is called stag-horn ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Thesaurus of English words and phrases : so classified and arranged as to facilitate the ... 
    Publication: Boston : Gould and Lincoln, 1859
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/03810780R
    ... 213, polish, glassiness, sleekness, slipperiness, lubricity, lubrication, down, velvet. V. To smooth, plane, polish, burnish, calender, glaze, ... Plumage, plumosity, plume, crest ; feather, tuft, fringe, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, down ; byssus, moss, burr. ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1852-1854
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101507665X2
    ... common people in New Granada it is called velvet bark. 8. rotunih folia; C. rotundifolia, Pavon, in ... touch, and might well bear the name of velvet bark, which Humboldt says is applied to this ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The American vegetable practice : or a new and improved guide to health, designed for the use ... 
    Publication: Boston : Johnson, 1845
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64220930R
    ... away by the rain. 849. Stag-horn or Velvet Sumach—Rhus Typhinum. This is called stag-horn ... and young branches are covered with a soft, velvet-like down. The leaves are similar to those ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Encyclopædia of chemistry, theoretical, practical, and analytical, as applied to the arts and ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1877-79
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101588200X2
    ... in colour; its fracture should show a clear, velvet-like surface, and it should be •light and ... form of round threads, which pass over a velvet band, e, into a tank of running water, ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Dr. Chase's third, last and complete receipt book and household physician : or Practical ... 
    Publication: Detroit, Mich. ; And Windsor, Ont. : Published by F.B. Dickerson & Co., 1888
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/9435274
    ... of biscuit or cukes, except the last one-"Velvet Cream,"-I will keep them together as found ... right consistency, and bake in waffle-irons. 5. Velvet Cream.-Two table-spoonfuls of gelatine, dissolved in ££ ...
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