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Meanings of strong lye in English
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Usage of strong lye in English
1
If strong lye is put to the grease, at first it will not mix well with the grease.
2
Immerse the finger in strong lye as long and as hot as can be borne several times a day.
3
It is an old practice to wash trees with strong lye when they are affected with the oyster-shell bark louse.
4
A gallon of strong lye put into a great kettle of hard water will make it as soft as rain water.
5
Apple-trees are preserved from insects by a wash of strong lye to the body and limbs, which, if old, should be first scraped.