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Definition of Astringing
1. astringe [v] - See also: astringe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astringing
Literary usage of Astringing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections from the World's Devotional Classics by George William Gilmore (1916)
"... inclosing, or astringing; because that is all that it can do toward seizing
of that which it would have. But the desire can not thus magically astringe, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"... and much of it exuded under the astringing influence of the chloride of zinc ;
also, I bad no alcohol and bad to use trade rum, and I fear that the ..."
3. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall (1824)
"... annexation in astringing the gums, or to cause them to grow firm, and unite
to the teeth, by which he preserves them for life; instantaneously by an ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1903)
"The local applications are of a saline or astringent nature, and act simply by
cleansing and astringing the nasal and pharyngeal mucosa, thereby, perhaps, ..."
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