levigate
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Mark first the rationale of the thing: Hear logic rivel and levigate the deed.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Moreover much of the finest levigated earth is washed completely away from the castings.
From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Charles Darwin
Had this been the case, the artist need not have looked farther for the furnishing of his palette than to a supply of well-burnt and levigated enamel pigments.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
This scar, in some months or years, is liable to wear away, and become transparent, without the assistance of any polishing powder, as of very finely levigated glass, as some have recommended.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
It is when combined with levigated talc to form the paint of the toilette that the red becomes most serviceable.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
But whereas the Nile-peoples pounded the stone in mortars and washed the dust on sloping boards, here the matrix must be laboriously levigated.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
This process consists in finely pulverizing the soil or rock, and levigating it in vessels of water.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
