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Base :: Base (n.) A substance used as a mordant.

Mordant :: Mordant (a.) Serving to fix colors.

Mordant :: Mordant (n.) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes..

Mordant :: Mordant (n.) Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.

Mordanting :: Mordanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mordan.

Mordanted :: Mordanted (imp. & p. p.) of Mordan.

Paste :: Paste (n.) A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color..

Padding :: Padding (n.) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

Mixtion :: Mixtion (n.) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf..

Fustet :: Fustet (n.) The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant..

Mordant :: Mordant (v. t.) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing..

Dung :: Dung (v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant..

Fixative :: Fixative (n.) That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant..

Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc..

Mordantly :: Mordantly (adv.) In the manner of a mordant.

Resist :: Resist (n.) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes..

Mordant :: Mordant (a.) Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

Pad :: Pad (v. t.) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth..

Mordant :: Mordant (n.) Any corroding substance used in etching.

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