Soak - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: soakSoak
To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain to macerate in water or other liquid to steep as for the purpose of softening or freshening as to soak cloth to soak bread to soak salt meat salt fish or the like...
Soaking
Wetting thoroughly drenching as a soaking rain...
Soakage
The act of soaking or the state of being soaked also the quantity that enters or issues by soaking...
Baigne
To soak or drench...
Bedrench
To drench to saturate with moisture to soak...
Bowssen
To drench to soak especially to immerse in water believed to have curative properties...
Buck
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching or in which clothes are washed...
Bucking
The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching also the liquid used...
Charlotte
A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread and filling it with bread soaked in milk and baked...
Collotype
A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid also the process of making such prints According to one method the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative After the dichromate has been washed out the film is soaked in glycerin and water As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink The albertype phototype and heliotype are collotypes...
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