Lead(II) salt of acetic acid; a white crystalline substance with a sweetish taste.
1 Use one teaspoonful of sugar of lead to one quart of water.
2 A wash of weak sugar of lead water, is also good for burns.
3 Besides sulphur there was sugar of lead in it and tincture of nux vomica and bay rum.
4 Take of sugar of lead , 1 oz.
5 The copperas acts very much like sugar of lead and in some cases is very much more effective.
6 But best of all is a wash of strong alcohol in which is a little sugar of lead as an antiseptic.
7 Dissolve a tea-spoonful of sugar of lead in water, and pour the clear solution into a decanter or large glass bottle.
8 There is no trace; of sweetness in the constituents of sugar of lead , or of blueness in the constituents of blue vitriol.
9 Ferrous and ferric acetates are used as mordants; normal lead acetate is known in commerce as sugar of lead (q.v.
10 Moisten a slice of wheat bread with sugar of lead , or pearl-ash water; bind it on, and keep wetting it as it becomes dry.
11 For calicoes that fade, put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead into a pailful of water and soak the garment fifteen minutes before washing.
12 Tea-roses are not red nor Neapolitan violets blue; sugar is only sweet to those unversed in metaphysics, and sugar of lead not even to them.
13 The following is also recommended as a good cooling compound for heavy bearings:-Tallow2 lb., plumbage 6 oz., sugar of lead 4 oz.
14 Sugar of lead is best for delicate greens, blues and tans.
15 "And now, little miss, hurry- sugarof lead bandages till evening."
16 "You know Mrs. Carlyle said that Owen's sweetness reminded her of sugar of lead . "
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