Mordant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MORDANT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to impregnate or treat with a mordant
• impregnate or treat (a fabric) with a mordant
• To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
• treat (a fabric, yarn, etc) with a mordant
NOUN:
• a substance that combines with and fixes a dyestuff
• a substance, typically an inorganic oxide, that combines with a dye or stain and thereby fixes it in a material.
• an adhesive compound for fixing gold leaf.
• a corrosive liquid used to etch the lines on a printing plate.
• Any corroding substance used in etching.
• Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
• Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
• a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process
• substance used to fix dyes
ADJECTIVE:
• biting
• (especially of humour) having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting
• sarcastic or scathing
• Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
• Serving to fix colors.
• harshly ironic or sinister
• of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to treat with a caustic substance

Words related to MORDANT

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Words that contain MORDANT

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How to use MORDANT in a sentence

• This comedy by Crowne is a mordant satire upon the Whigs.
• Oak bark, with copper as a mordant, when father had money to purchase it, supplied the ink with which I learned to write.
• The color which is fixed on the fabric as a result of chemical action between mordant and dye is frequently very different from that of the dye itself.
• This is by far the best and most generally used method of applying these mordant dyes.
• Now we come to the last method of dyeing wool with mordant and colours, that in which the operation is carried out in one bath.
• The mordant reds are fairly numerous, and include both natural and artificial red dye-stuffs.
• The dyeing with mordant dyes must be done in a special way and with great care, if uniform, level shades and fast colours are to be obtained.
• The artificial blues derived from coal tar are very numerous, and representatives of all classes, direct, basic, acid and mordant of dye-stuffs may be found among them.
• The blue dyes derived from coal tar are very numerous, direct, basic, acid and mordant blues being known.
• He could be pathetic, ironic, playful, mordant, musing, at will.
• How he should begin again the mordant struggle for existence was still an unsolved problem.
• You are ready enough in your wits, your figure is ideal, and you have just the kind of mordant humour for the part.
• His peculiar quality is a certain blending of mordant realism with a high and penetrating beauty.
• It is said to be the mordant used for a fine blue on woollen.
• Thus it will be observed, that the art of dyeing permanent colours depends on this intermediate principle, which is termed a mordant.
• It takes twice as long to convert a body of women to some new fallacy as it takes to convert a body of men, and even then they halt, hesitate and are full of mordant criticisms.
• It is his desire, therefore, to have a good range of red, yellow, blue, and other coloring matters, all giving fast dyes with this mordant.
• Some of these diagrams before you this evening show clearly the fastness to light generally of the lakes formed with copper mordant.
• The letters are now taken charge of by a girl, who lays them out on a wire tray, the hollow side up, and paints them over with a thin mordant.
• As he had read it in the revulsion from that literally sickening hope of his, it had seemed about the most mordant piece of irony that had ever been launched against him.

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