2. Verb. (third-person singular of calcimine#Verb calcimine) ¹
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Definition of Calcimines
1. calcimine [v] - See also: calcimine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcimines
Literary usage of Calcimines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Limestone Resources and the Lime Industry in Ohio by Edward Orton, Samuel Vernon Peppel (1906)
"calcimines and prepared whitewashes might receive more attention from Ohio lime
manufacturers. The following mixture keeps well in packages and gives good ..."
2. Radford's Cyclopedia of Construction; Carpentry, Building and Architecture edited by William A. Radford, Alfred Sidney Johnson (1909)
"The prepared calcimines are of two classes— the hot-water and the cold-water.
... Hot-water calcimines are made by using finely ground or powdered animal ..."
3. Industrial Chemistry: A Manual for the Student and Manufacturer by Allen Rogers (1920)
"calcimines are prepared as dry powders from gypsum or whiting as the pigment base.
They often contain a considerable percentage of zinc, lithopone, ..."
4. Trade Foundations Based on Producing Industries (1919)
"They are known as calcimines, or by special trade names, and are tinted various
colors, in which form they are generally used for inside wall decoration. ..."
5. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture, Properties, and Uses by Adelbert Philo Mills (1915)
"It is also used as an ingredient of some oil paints, many water paints, wall
tints and calcimines, in some dry colors and crayons, and in imitation ivory, ..."
6. Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorus, Cements, Pastes, and Mucilages by Ferdinand Dawidowsky (1905)
"... cotton, etc., for the manufacture of calcimines and wall-coverings, for glue
to be used with colored woods, and for all other purposes where a fine, ..."
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