Word Finder - mastic

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An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean.

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A hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by this tree and used to make varnishes and chewing gum, and as a flavouring.

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An alcoholic liquor flavoured with this resin.

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A flexible, waterproof cement used as an adhesive, sealant or filler.

The chief productions are wheat, wine, oil, mastic, figs, raisins, honey, wax, cotton and silk.

Briicke also brought forward an experiment of great importance, in which he showed that gum mastic, precipitated from an alcoholic solution poured into a large quantity of water, scatters light of a blue tint.

He remarks that it is impossible to suppose that the particles of mastic are in the form of bubbles.

Quicklime mixed with white of egg, hardened Canada balsam, and thick copal or mastic varnish are also useful for cementing broken china, which should be warmed before their application.

The apple, pear, cherry and plum thrive well in the north; the orange, lemon, citron and sugar-cane in the south; styrax and mastic in the south-west; and the wheat lands of the Sivas vilayet can hardly be surpassed.

The sugar-cane flourishes, the cotton-plant ripens to perfection, date-trees are seen in the gardens, the rocks are clothed with the prickly-pear or Indian fig, the enclosures of the fields are formed by aloes and sometimes pomegranates, the liquorice-root grows wild, and the mastic, the myrtle and many varieties of oleander and cistus form the underwood of the natural forests of arbutus and evergreen oak.

Many species are rich in gums and resins; the calambac, mastic, copal, cedar, &c. Many others are oleaginous, among them, peanuts, sun-flowers, the bene seed (sesame), corozo, almond and palmachristi.

Andros Island and the Abaco Islands may be specially noted for their profusion of large timber, including mahogany, mastic, lignum vitae, iron and bullet woods, and many others.

The incense sticks and pastils known all over India under the names of ud-buti (" benzoin-light") or aggar-ki-buti (" wood aloes light") are composed of benzoin, wood aloes, sandalwood, rock lichen, patchouli, rose-malloes, talispat (the leaf of Flacourtia Cataphracta of Roxburgh), mastic and sugar-candy or gum.

The hard transparent resins, such as the copals, dammars, mastic and sandarach, are principally used for varnishes and cement, while the softer odoriferous oleo-resins (frankincense, turpentine, copaiba) and gum-resins containing essential oils (ammoniacum, asafoetida, gamboge, myrrh, scammony) are more largely used for therapeutic purposes and incense.

Jewellers' or Armenian cement consists of isinglass with mastic and gum ammoniac dissolved in spirit.

Pistacia khinjak affords a mastic. The fruit, mixed with its resin, is used for food by the Achakzais in Southern Afghanistan.

Its figs were noted in ancient times, but wine and gum mastic have always been the most important products.

This mercantile brotherhood, formerly a privileged class, alone exploited the mastic trade; at the same time the Greeks were allowed to retain their rights of self-government and continued to exercise their industries.

The spirit called mastic or raki is largely produced.

The road deck was then surfaced with hand laid mastic asphalt.

For example, high trafficked porous asphalt and stone mastic asphalt.

Take fragrant spices; gum mastic, aromatic shells, 4 galbanum; add pure frankincense to the spices in equal proportions.

Noise There are some very good reasons to use mastic on a slate roof.

When applied correctly mastic is a useful and attractive way to finish and define corners and edges, especially in tiled areas.

Where any are found, they must be sealed with either cement or flexible mastic depending on the size of the hole.

The contractors glazed the case with a series of toughened glass panels, 19mm thick and sealed with clear mastic.

This was treated with compound, and a heavy gage felt covering was cemented all over with a cold mastic.

A storm collar is clamped around the pipe, onto a bead of silicone mastic, just above the flashing plate.

Also, the edges against the panels have got a mastic sealant which has started to come away.

Mastic Trees (Pistacia) - Summer-leafing and evergreen trees, generally not hardy enough in England to be of much value in our gardens.

P. Lenticus, an evergreen shrub, or small tree, occasionally 15 to 20 feet high, is a native of the Mediterranean region, and produces the resinous substance known as mastic.

His method uses mastic and fiberglass reinforced paper to form a surface over the countertop that's accepting of standard thinset mortar.

Apply a coat of pre-mixed mastic to the top of the countertop using an 8-inch notched trowel.

Lay the fiberglass reinforced paper on top of the mastic and use a large putty knife to smooth out any air bubbles.

Mastic Home Exteriors has been in business for over 70 years.

Cedria, or cedar resin, is a substance similar to mastic, that flows from incisions in the tree; and cedar manna is a sweet exudation from its branches.