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Mastic

noun
(Written also mastich)
1.
An aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes.
2.
A pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler.
3.
An evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin.  Synonyms: lentisk, mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus.



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Peruvian mastic tree


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"Mastic" Quotes from Famous Books



... should be cypress or pear or service-tree or walnut. You must coat it over with mastic and turpentine twice distilled and white or, if you like, lime, and put it in a frame so that it may expand and shrink according to its moisture and dryness. Then give it [a coat] of aqua vitae in which ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... creek, Ned bore off to the north where the woods seemed more open and soon reached a stretch of dry, open prairie. On the border of it stood a tall mastic tree with a lightning-blasted top and many branches which made it easy to climb. Ned was soon in the top of the tree making a mental map of the ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock
... here it is bearable, because we are near the governmental headquarters; but out a bit there's nothing, Monsieur—not the ghost of a road at all. We get along as best we can over hill and dale, over dwarf palms and mastic-trees. Ne'er a fixed change of horses, the stopping being at the whim of the guard, now at one farm, ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... pillars which doubtless supported a vaulted roof covering the altar of the idol, and one moved around these pillars as in an ambulatory. These stones were cased with granitic marble. I found some pieces still unbroken which had been attached to the stones with mastic. I believe that the exterior as well as the interior of the temple was cased with this marble" (Le Mascrier, Description de ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12) • G. Maspero


Words linked to "Mastic" :   Pistacia, genus Pistacia, natural resin, filler, bush, shrub, cement, Peruvian mastic tree


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