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Meanings of goldbeater in English
Spanish
batihoja Catalan
batifuller Synonyms
Examples for "gold-beater"
Examples for "gold-beater"
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.
Usage of goldbeater in English
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.
6
Of several the faces are black as tar, the lips hugely distended-theheads of negroes blown out in goldbeaters' skin.
7
Fifteen thicknesses of goldbeaters' skin-about the most expensive covering obtainable-wereused for the envelope, which was 25 feet in diameter.
8
Goldbeater's skin has the advantage of being very sensitive, and it must be used if the subject has not a resonant voice.
9
"In our line of business they ought to fetch more than the new, like goldbeaters' tools."
10
A certain Baron de Beaumanoir made the first balloon of goldbeaters' skin, this being eighteen inches in diameter, and using hydrogen as a lifting factor.
11
The next attempt was more ambitious, made with a goldbeaters' skin balloon containing 4,000 cubic feet of gas, and carrying automatic instruments of precision.
Frequent collocations
Goldbeater through the time