triturate

Just as the fish swallow stones to aid the digestion, we need the accidents and frictions of life to triturate our moral pabulum, and render it more easily assimilable to our constitutions.

From Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service by Charles James Lever

Green oxide of chromium, 1 part; oxide of cobalt, 2 parts; triturate, and melt at a high heat.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

Place it in a mortar with 18 grams of potassium iodide and triturate with small portions of water until all is dissolved.

From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Henry P. Talbot

Yellow ochre, No. 244, 15 parts; oxide of cobalt, 1 part; triturate and calcine in a crucible until it has the desired tone.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

Let the above be very finely powdered, then mix it with sufficient honey to make it into a smooth paste; triturate it until entirely smooth.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

The author already quoted believes that the Pompilius seizes its captive by the pedicle which unites the abdomen to the cephalothorax, and that it triturates this point between its jaws.

From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

Of pan concentrators there is an enormous selection, the principle in most being similar—i.e., a revolving muller, which triturates the sand, so freeing the tiny golden particles and admitting of their contact with the mercury.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson

Miss Rosa, being a woman, must raise the lid, and gave a slight shiver at the innocent looking triturates.

From Rolling Stones by O. Henry

Hastily, he scraped a flat-edged scalpel along a tissue sample, hoping for maximum abrasion, and triturated the results.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 29, 2016

For it appears from the experiments of Van Woensel, that calomel or sublimate corrosive, triturated with variolous matter, incapacitates it from giving the disease by inoculation.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

Preparation.—The spiders are triturated in the usual way.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

Preparation.—The purified Paraffin is triturated in the usual way.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

To blacken the hair a little of this dye is triturated in the hand or between the fingers, with which the hair or beard is well rubbed.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse

He stopped triturating some shavings of hard tobacco between his 24 huge palms, and sat quietly, hands clasped, as though in prayer.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

They do not seem hard enough to resist the triturating power of the gizzard of a gallinaceous bird, though they must resist that of some other birds; for the skin is as hard as ivory.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin

Of means for crushing or triturating quartz there is no lack, and every year gives us fresh inventions for the purpose, each one better than that which preceded it, according to its inventor.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson

The triturating power of worms not quite insignificant under a geological point of view.

From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Charles Darwin

The crop is modified into a large and very rugose triturating apparatus, while the gizzard, thereby relieved of its function, is reduced to the utmost.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various