The surface is, last of all, cleaned with soft linen cloths, cleared of all greasiness with powdered starch, and then rubbed bright with the palm of the hand.
Both the above are employed by artists to fix chalk and pencil drawings before tinting them, and to remove the greasiness from ivory, tracing paper, &c.
On the wind that smelt of barracks and disinfectant there was a faint greasiness of food cooking.
With a greasiness of chocolate in his mouth and the warmth of it in his stomach, John Andrews went to sleep.
The atmosphere certainly takes up this, but the exposure must be frequent, for this greasiness will return.
The plate is first placed in water or rinsed under a gentle stream from the tap till all greasiness has disappeared, it is then placed in a flat dish, and the developer applied.
Take it out, see that all greasiness is gone, and place it in the preservative, going on till all the plates are so treated.
Pasteur found the means of preventing this multiplication by a very simple remedy, equally applicable to other diseases of wines, such as that of bitterness or greasiness (maladie de la graisse).
If the form is to be re-inked immediately after cleaning this greasiness must be removed in order to ink up again for a sharp, clear impression.
It is not so satisfactory, however, because of the greasiness which it leaves on the surface after evaporation.
Dredge the cake all over with flour, to take off the greasiness of the outside, which greasiness may otherwise prevent the icing from sticking well.
This, by removing the greasiness of the outside, will make the icing stick on the better.
Any make of dry plate may be stripped by the following method:—The plate is coated with strong tough collodion upon the gelatine side; as soon as the collodion has set, it is plunged into cold water and washed until all greasiness disappears.
After cooling, the roller is pushed out of the mould, and washed with alcohol or turpentine to remove any trace of greasiness due to oiling the mould, placed in a bath of tannic acid, washed with water, and dried.
A sheet of plate glass is coated with collodion, allowed to set, and then placed in a dish of cold water until all greasiness has disappeared.
However thoroughly that thin film of surface greasiness is removed with the use of soap and vigorous scrubbing, in a moment or two water is seen to act on the cutaneous surface as it would on a slightly greasy platter or a duck’s back.
When the palmar surface leaves a distinctly greasy impression, this greasinessmust have been acquired from outside or from transmitted exudation from the back or dorsal surfaces, or other parts of the body.
When clean palms leave a greasy smear, as they often do, I think the greasiness must generally come by transmission from other parts of the body, or from contact with foreign greasy substances, which are common enough.
Sometimes the greasiness does not develop until the rubber has been out of the smoke-house for a day or two.
The tents, black in colour, were woven of yaks' hair, the natural greasiness of which made them quite waterproof.
The thread is well twisted and is subjected to no preparation before spinning, leaving thus a certain greasiness in the closely-woven material that renders it waterproof.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greasiness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: evenness; greasiness; regularity; uniformity
