The leaves of the plant discover a viscid sweetishness, accompanied with a more durable saponaceouspungency and warmth: these seem capable of answering some useful purposes, as a stimulating, aperient, antiscorbutic medicine.
Fuchs thinks it must have been the Saponaria officinalis (soap-wort), the roots of which indeed contain a saponaceous juice that readily changes the saliva into froth.
As far as I know, however, it was not employed by the ancients[240], but it is certain that in washing they used saponaceous plants.
At the time of the poet, before the invention of soap, people employed for washing either nitre or the saponaceous juice of certain plants, which I have already endeavoured to determine.
Of plants with a saponaceous juice, the ancients, at any rate, used one instead of soap; but it is difficult or rather impossible to define it.
Note: Saponaceous bodies are compounds of an acid and a base, and are in reality a kind of salt.
To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous andsaponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.
By these means, the lime, oil, and saponaceous matter, are discharged, and the skin is rendered pliable.
For many ages before the invention of soap, saponaceous plants, and several kinds of earth, together with animal matters and the ley from ashes, were employed for the purpose of cleansing the skin, and articles of clothing.
The saliva is a saponaceous liquor, destitute of taste or smell, which is squeezed out from these glands, and mixed with the food during mastication.
Russel greatly recommends the Use of Sea Water along with the saponaceous Medicines.
Fomenting the Part with warm emollient Decoctions, and rubbing it afterwards with the volatile, or saponaceous Liniments, often gave Ease; and the Application of Cupping-Glasses and Blisters frequently removed the Disorder.
Besides, as the lye would dissolve some part thereof, it would thence acquire a saponaceous quality, and so lose much of its caustic nature.
Whatever quantity of water therefore you mix with a Spirit that is impregnated with such juices, no separation thereof will be produced; and for the same reason the saponaceous matters will be dissolved by a very aqueous Spirit of Wine.
And accordingly the analysis thereof shews that it contains an Oil, rendered perfectly saponaceous by an Acid; that is, made perfectly miscible with water.
With this saponaceous liquor the cloth is padded as before, and then passed between squeezing-rollers, which return the superfluous liquor into the padding-trough.
Their saponaceous bath of a creamy aspect is used at a temperature of 75 deg.
The neutro-saline matter present in the spent lye is essential to the proper granulation and separation of the saponaceous compound; for otherwise the watery menstruum would dilute and even liquefy the soap.
This saponaceous compound is let off as wanted by a stopcock into the trough of a padding machine, in order to imbue every fibre of the cloth in its passage.
In winter, when the goods cannot be exposed on the grass, no less than 12 alternations of the saponaceous or white bath are employed, and 8 in spring.
The cloth is padded again with thesaponaceous liquor; and again spread on the grass, or dried hard in the stove.
The cream colored in this way has a blue tint; when it is required of a purple color we have merely to stain the white saponaceous cream with a mixture of vermilion and smalt to the shade desired.
The previously-formed saponaceous mixture is now to be placed in the mortar, and the ready-formed emulsion in the runner; the soapy compound and the emulsion is then carefully blended together.
Color the grease very strongly with alkanet root, then proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.
Now proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.
Some Mexican species produce pods that are boiled and eaten, and certain portions containsaponaceous properties.
The fruit of this plant is about the size of a large gooseberry, the outer covering or shell of which contains a saponaceous principle in sufficient abundance to produce a lather with water and is used as a substitute for soap.
When dry it did not fear water; though a saponaceous medium, it was not again soluble in water.
Coathupe of Bristol, on whose chemical and general scientific knowledge we have great reliance, and who much confirmed our view, or rather Rainier's, of the advantage of rendering the oils saponaceous by the means of borax.
Unattacked specimens are slightly saponaceousto the taste while others in the same bunch are bitter.
Unless well cooked it has a slight saponaceous flavor.
A little lemon juice or sherry will cover the slightly saponaceous taste sometimes present.
So that his lawyer, Mr. Saponaceous Wood, found him in that belligerent mood to which counsel are obliged to hypocritically bring all the sophistries of their profession.
Then she went boldly to the law office ofSaponaceous Wood, District Attorney and whilom solicitor of her uncle.
And, for the matter of that, so was Mr. Saponaceous Wood, of counsel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saponaceous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
