Violet ivory is changed to purple-red by steeping it a little while in water containing a few drops of nitro-muriatic acid.
This steeping and draining upon inclined tables, are repeated frequently during the space of 3 weeks.
The uncombined oil must, in the next place, be withdrawn by the degraissage, which consists in steeping the goods for 6 hours in a very weak alkaline ley.
Steeping for a night in the river is the next process; a slight rinsing without wringing, and drying in the air.
The fermentation of this process may be either rendered rapid by steeping the flax in water, or slow by using merely the ordinary influence of the atmospheric damp, dews, and rain.
Soyes, consisted in steeping mustard seed in twice its bulk of weak wood vinegar for eight days, then grinding the whole into paste in a mill, putting it into pots, and thrusting a redhot poker into each of them.
They are infused in the steeping vat with six times their bulk of water, and allowed to macerate for two hours with continual stirring till all the floating leaves sink.
All these operations are facilitated by previously steeping the caoutchouc in boiling water, in its moderately inflated state.
Cleansing out the weaver's dressing by steeping the cloth for twelve hours in cold water, and then washing it at the stocks or the dash-wheel.
A still finer and deeper black may be obtained by boiling the ivory for some time in a strained decoction of logwood, and then steeping it in a solution of red sulphate or red acetate of iron.
The copper, by successive heating and lamination, gets covered with a coat of oxide, which is removed by steeping the sheets for a few days in a pit filled with urine; they are then put upon the sole of the heating furnace.
Sauces for puddings may be similarly flavored, by steeping cocoanut or bits of orange or lemon rind in the milk.
Orange or lemon flavor may be obtained by steeping a few strips of the yellow part of the rind of lemon or orange in milk for twenty minutes.
Cream gravies for vegetables may be delicately flavored with celery, by steeping a few bits of celery in the milk for a few minutes, and removing with a fork before adding the thickening.
If desired, the sauce may be flavored by steeping in the milk before thickening for ten or fifteen minutes, a slice of onion or a few bits of celery, and then removing with a fork.
These are, I believe, with the references to steeping of wheat in De Bary, Unters.
Far more numerous are the various liquids which have been employed for washing, spraying, or steeping the affected parts of diseased plants.
Defn: To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water.
Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning like cotton.
To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
Pharmacy) (a) The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its virtues.
To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.
The water can be brought to the boil in a large kettle, and the tea thrown in, but care must be exercised to see that the steeping does not last too long.
The length of the steeping depends also upon the kind of tea.
To extract flavor by allowing the leaves to remain for a few minutes, in water which has been poured on at the boiling temperature, and to avoid the extraction of tannin by making the period of steeping short.
It may be colored by steeping a little alkanet root in the oil (by heat) before scenting it.
Chip the peas by steeping them in water and leaving them in a warm place for a few days.
You have only to collect the shows of the flax mill, and pump out the water from the steeping hole, and apply both to the land, and you restore to it all that the crop has taken off.
Dried meat is a poor substitute for fresh meat; it requires long steeping in water, to make it tender, and then it is tasteless, and comparatively innutritious.
Isinglass is made readily by steeping the stomach and intestines of fish in cold water, and then gently boiling them into a jelly: this is spread into sheets and allowed to dry.
Arrows are most readily poisoned by steeping a thread in the juice, and wrapping it round the barbs.
All kinds of cord become exceedingly rotten in hot, dry countries: the fishermen of the Cape preserve their nets by steeping them occasionally in blood.
I described to my boys as we went along the process of retting, and explained to them how steeping the flax leaves destroys the useless membrane, while the strong fibers remain.
So, the first thing after breakfast, Petrus busied himself steeping bullock's hide in water.
The last-named condiment is prepared by steeping Capsicums in pure spirits of wine.
Salsify roots require to be prepared for use by scraping them, and then steeping in water containing a little lemon juice or vinegar.
I could hear the fire crackling and smell the odour of steeping tea.
Tea was steeping in the little pot that hung over the fire, and our breakfast of boiled eggs and bread and butter lay on a paper beside it.
The steeping method so much favored in England may be responsible for some of the unkind things said about English coffee; because it undoubtedly leads to the abuse of over-infusion, so that the net result is as bad as boiling.
In the pumping percolator, as in the steeping method, the temperature varies greatly from the time the extraction is started to the completion of the operation.
Steeping coffee in American homes (an English heirloom) is usually performed in a china or earthenware jug.
Crushing the raw beans and hulls, and steeping them in water, was a later improvement.
Only at the vat where the body of the pharaoh lay steeping was a guard left.
Definition: Steeping is a method of cooking, by pouring boiling water over food, and letting it stand in a moderately warm place.
It may be coloured red by steeping a little alkanet root in the oil (with heat) before scenting it.
Vegetables, eaten in an uncooked state, as, salad, are rendered more crisp and of better flavour, by steeping them for a short time before they are brought to table in a solution of borax.
The oil coloured before scenting, by steeping in it one drachm of alkanet root, with a gentle heat, until the desired tint is produced.
It is made by steeping sloes in water, and letting them stand therein until a thick coating of mildew is formed on the surface.
Pale-colored woods are stained in imitation of ebony by washing them with, or steeping them in a strong decoction of logwood or galls, allowing them to dry, and then washing them over with a solution of the sulphate or acetate of iron.
Skeleton leaves may be made by steeping leaves in rain water, in an open vessel, exposed to the air and sun.
The object of the lime steeping is to remove any blood and flesh which may be attached to the skin, and to form a lime soap with the fatty matter present.
The mode of separating it from these and other impurities is by steeping and washing it in water, and sometimes with the aid of soap.
A cock is then turned to let the water run into the second tub, called the mortar, or pounding tub: the steeping vat is then cleaned out, that fresh plants may be thrown in, and thus the work is continued without interruption.
Greenleaf looked up from the grasses steeping at the root of a big willow, in the water.
Then, as the cool, unperfumed beauty of the dogwood was forgotten for the sense-steeping fragrance of the locust, he knew that he was only trying to deceive himself.
In his ears was the exuberance of the birds saluting the morning, and in his nostrils the loamy aroma stirred by their horses' hoofs from the steeping fragrance of last year's leaves.
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