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Sandiver :: Sandiver (n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall..

Discumbency :: Discumbency (n.) The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.

Mullein :: Mullein (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus..

Wash :: Wash (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation..

Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth..

Scumming :: Scumming (n.) The act of taking off scum.

Scummer :: Scummer (n.) Excrement; scumber.

Viscum :: Viscum (n.) A genus of parasitic shrubs, including the mistletoe of Europe..

Despumation :: Despumation (n.) The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

Scum :: Scum (v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross..

Foam :: Foam (n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea..

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) The color so laid on. Also used figuratively.

Scumble :: Scumble (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect..

Dross :: Dross (n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement..

Cremor :: Cremor (n.) Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.

Scumbling :: Scumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scumbl.

Hag-taper :: Hag-taper (n.) The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

Viscum :: Viscum (n.) Birdlime, which is often made from the berries of the European mistletoe..

Discumber :: Discumber (v. t.) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing..

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