Definition of Pastiness

1. Noun. The condition of being pasty; pallor ¹

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Definition of Pastiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastiness

pastiest
pastil
pastilla
pastillas
pastillation
pastillator
pastillators
pastille
pastilles
pastils
pastily
pastimes
pastina
pastinas
pastiness (current term)
pastinesses
pasting
pastings
pastirma
pastis
pastises
pastizzi
pastless
pastmaster
pastness

Literary usage of Pastiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In limiting the diameter at the tuyeres to I2j ft., the height of the boshes to one which will keep their upper end below the region of pastiness, and their ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In limiting the diameter at the tuyeres to 12) ft., the height of the boshes to one which will keep their upper end below the region of pastiness, and their ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"Solubility of the residue obtained by dissolving pure antimony in dilute nitric acid (1-3) evaporated to pastiness. Dilution forty cc. ..."

4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1896)
"Alkaline carbonates, or alkaline silicates, so common in natural waters, greatly promote the process, causing the aqueo-igneous pastiness or aqueo-igneous ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1839)
"The power of being welded is entirely due to this latter condition of intermediate pastiness between fluidity and solidity, and hence it is properly not ..."

6. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1909)
"... the narrowing region of the ihes, and descends freely enough, because the only solid is the coke, ;lf perfectly dry and without suggestion of pastiness. ..."

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