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Webster 1913 Edition


Masticot

Mas′ti-cot

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Noun.
(Chem.)
Massicot.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Masticot

MAS'TICOT

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Noun.
Calcined white lead; yellow oxyd of lead. Lead exposed to the air while melting, is covered with a gray, dusky pellicle. This pellicle carefully taken off, is reduced by agitation to a greenish gray powder, inclining to yellow. This oxyd, separated from the grains of lead by sifting, and exposed to a more intense heat, sufficient to make it red hot, assumes a deep yellow color. In this state it is called massicot. Massicot, slowly heated by a moderate fire, takes a beautiful red color, and obtains the name of minium.
Massicot is sometimes used by painters, and it is used as a drier in the composition of ointments and plasters.

Definition 2024


masticot

masticot

English

Noun

masticot (countable and uncountable, plural masticots)

  1. Obsolete form of massicot.