Papery: alternatives and connections

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…

A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.

A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated i…

To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter o…

Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in co…

Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc.

An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it…

A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied…

A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear…

From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.

The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consi…

Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.

Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

a doubled or long consonant; "the ‘n’ in ‘thinness’ is a geminate"

The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and trans…