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Volume 17 · 50 words · 1842 Edition

or Pastel, amongst painters, a kind of paste which is made of different colours, ground up with gum-water, in order to form crayons.

in Pharmacy, is a dry composition of sweet-smelling resins, aromatic woods, and the like, which is sometimes burnt to clear and scent the air of a chamber.