Varnish - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: varnishVarnish
Varnish, is a generic name given to a homogeneous solution of gums or resins in alcohol, linsed oil or the like which is coated or various articles for protection or decorative purposes. French polish is only a species, being a homogeneous solution in alcohol with the result that the volatile solvent evaporates quickly, Akhtar Abbas v. Assistant Collector, Central Excise, Bhopal, AIR 1961 MP 353. (Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, Sch. I, Item 22)...
Lacquer
A varnish consisting of a solution of shellac in alcohol often colored with gamboge saffron or the like used for varnishing metals papier macheacute and wood The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients esp the tough solid varnish of the Japanese with which ornamental objects are made...
Japan
Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner also the varnish or lacquer used in japanning...
Bickford fuse
A fuse used in blasting consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute...
brittlebush
fragrant rounded shrub of SW US and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue green leaves and yellow flowers produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine...
Camphine
Rectified oil of turpentine used for burning in lamps and as a common solvent in varnishes...
Candlenut
The fruit of a euphorbiaceous tree or shrub Aleurites moluccana native of some of the Pacific islands It is used by the natives as a candle the nut kernels being strung together The oil from the nut candlenut oil or kekune oil has many uses including as a varnish...
Coal tar
A thick black tarry liquid obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas used for making printers ink black varnish etc It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series...
Copaiba
A more or less viscid yellowish liquid the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies It is stimulant and diuretic and was formerly much used in affections of the mucous membranes It is also used in varnishes and lacquers and in cleaning oil paintings called also balsam of copaiba copaiba balsam balsam capivi and Jesuits resin...
Copal
A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar Madagascar and South America Trachylobium Hornemannianum Trachylobium verrucosum and Hymenaeliga Courbaril and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa used chiefly in making varnishes...
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