1 One never has paste or gum tragacanth handy; 2.
2 A shallow trough is filled with a solution of gum hog or gum tragacanth of the consistency of thick cream.
3 A bottle of gum tragacanth stood on one corner of the dressing-table, and with its contents Abby matted the unneighborly locks together.
4 Half a pint of water, rectified spirits with an equal quantity of water three ounces, gum tragacanth one and a half drams.
5 Perfumers, however, chiefly make bandoline from gum tragacanth , which exudes from a shrub of that name which grows plentifully in Greece and Turkey.
6 Old French cookery-books recommend the addition of a little powdered gum, not bigger than a pea, and the gum recommended is that known as tragacanth .
7 Description: A composition of sugar, gum tragacanth (traganth) and citric acid, used in the form of lemonade in case of high carbonic acid poisoning.
8 "Tell the druggist to use tragacanth paste to hold the pill together."
9 (17) His powder was composed of copperas alone or mixed with gum tragacanth .
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