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n.
A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar.
n.
Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc.
a.
Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.
n.
The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.
n.
The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Impale
n.
The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Impale
n.
The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.
v. t.
To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
n.
To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
v. i.
Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
a.
Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
adv.
In an impalpable manner.
v. t.
To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.
a.
Not material; intangible; incorporeal.
n.
To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.
n.
The quality of being impalpable.
v. t.
To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste.
v. t.
To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
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