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Definition of Ebonizing
1. ebonize [v] - See also: ebonize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebonizing
Literary usage of Ebonizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems of the Finishing Room: A Reference and Formula Manual for Furniture by Walter Karl Schmidt (1916)
"THE WOODS best adapted for ebonizing are apple, pear, hazel, maple, beech, and
birch, ... Aside from the method EBOXY WELL. given elsewhere for ebonizing ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Lamp-black is extensively used in the manufacture of printing ink, as a pigment
for oil painting and also for " ebonizing " cabinet work, and in the waxing ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... Of clever persons overcharged with bile ;" Why, then, there's nothing for it
but stirring up the fire, drawing a cork, and ebonizing—ainsi va le monde ! ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Further, lamp-black is largely need for "ebonizing" cabinet-work, and in the
waxing and lacquering of leather. It is the principal constituent of China ink, ..."
5. Music (1893)
"... where the warrantee assures the purchaser that under ordinary meteorological
conditions the ebonizing will stand, and the piano have just as many keys ..."
6. The American Review of History and Politics, and General Repository of by Robert Walsh (1811)
"... according to Dr. Smith, in ebonizing the complexion of man; —amid these
circumstances, we say, the African color is found in less perfection than under ..."
7. The Irish Quarterly Review (1856)
"... learned framer of that last named section was influenced by the " precipitancy "
which we deprecate, or whether his ink-stand ran short of its ebonizing ..."
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