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Siccative   Listen
adjective
Siccative  adj.  Drying; causing to dry.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Siccative" Quotes from Famous Books



... painters' studios. A gray wall quadrangularly vaulted to a large north light; casts of feet, hands, faces hung to nails about; prints, sketches in oil and water-color stuck here and there lower down; a rickety table, with paint and palettes and bottles of varnish and siccative tossed comfortlessly on it; an easel, with a strip of some faded mediaeval silk trailing from it; a lay figure simpering in incomplete nakedness, with its head on one side, and a stocking on one leg, and a Japanese dress dropped before it; dusty rugs and skins kicking over the varnished floor; ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells



Words linked to "Siccative" :   chemical agent, desiccant



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