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Meanings of gold-beater in English
Synonyms
Examples for "goldbeater"
Examples for "goldbeater"
1
The skins used by the goldbeater are produced from the offal of animals.
2
For the records here recorded either glass or goldbeater's skin was used as a diaphragm.
3
The Hungary water was immediately brought to bathe it, and goldbeater's skin applied to stop the blood.
4
They are made of goldbeater's skin, and range in capacity from 7,000 to 10,000 cubic feet, the majority being of the former capacity.
5
Dismissing considerations of cost, goldbeaters' skin would doubtless have been more suitable.
Usage of gold-beater in English
1
I applied the lunar caustic to form an eschar and then the gold-beater's skin.
2
The bags, eighteen in number, are made of rubber-proofed fabric lined with gold-beater's skin.
3
It was a bluish-black, and as thin as gold-beater's skin.
4
I applied the lunar caustic to form an eschar and protected it with gold-beater's skin.
5
High above the hills, to the left of the path, hung a speck of gold-beater's skin.
6
A gold-beater from Fürth had created so much excitement that the police had to be called in.
7
The envelope was fish-shaped and composed of gold-beater's skin, with a volume of 21,000 cubic feet.
8
At this period, the inflammation having somewhat abated, I applied the lunar caustic to form eschars and protected the parts with gold-beater's skin.
9
What it sees is a bag made of ultra-fine gold-beater's skin, translucent, stiff and white, retaining the complete form of the original egg.
10
The tympan employed for receiving is made of gold-beater's skin, having a stud at its centre and a springy stylus of steel wire.
11
In this the diaphragm was a piece of gold-beater's skin, which Bell had selected as most closely resembling the drum in the human ear.
12
It was made of layer after layer of gold-beater's skin and contained two ballonets- asmallship compared to the Zeppelins, and non-rigid in type.
13
He had experienced the common lot of young artists in those days, and had been apprenticed to a gold-beater, but preferred the profession of painter.
14
There he took into his service goldsmiths and gold-beaters, architects and bombardiers.
15
His skin, like that of the porpoise, is as thin as gold-beaters' leaf.
16
It was what is called gold-beaters' skin.