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Definition: Fuller's Earth |
Fuller's EarthNoun1. An absorbent soil resembling clay; used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A clay or claylike material with a high adsorptive capacity, consisting largely of the clay minerals montmorillonite and palygorskite. Used originally in England for whitening, degreasing, or fulling (shrinking and thickening by application of moisture) woolen fabrics; fuller's earth now is extensively used as an adsorbent in refining and decolorizing oils and fats; it is a natural bleaching agent. Its color ranges from light brown through yellow and white to light and dark green; it differs from ordinary clay by having a higher percentage of water and little or no plasticity, tending to break down into a muddy sediment in water. Fuller's earth probably forms as a residual deposit by decomposition of rock in place, as by devitrification of volcanic glass. The term is applied without reference to any particular chemical or mineral composition, texture, ororigin. Syn:walker's earth. (references) |
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Crosswords: Fuller's Earth |
| English words defined with "fuller's earth": Cledge ♦ Fulling mill. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fuller's earth": attapulgite ♦ BLEACHER, LARD ♦ clay wash ♦ Glacialite, gumbrine ♦ lard maker, LARD REFINER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fuller's earth": Smectite. (references) |
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John Gay | But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. |
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Expression using "fuller's earth": activated fuller's earth. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "fuller's earth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fullerjord. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vollersaarde, volaarde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | terre foulon (fullers'earth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fullererde (fullers'earth), Walk/erde, bleicherde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποχρωστική γαία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bentonit (bentonite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | terra da follone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uller'sfay earthay terras de pisão. (various references) tierra de batán. (various references) kil (argil, clay, earthen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | creta. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-e-e-f-h-l-l-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: restfuller. | |
-4 letters: falterers, latherers, terrellas. | |
-5 letters: allurers, alterers, austerer, falterer, feathers, features, fellates, ferrates, ferrules, fuehrers, fuellers, furthers, halteres, hasteful, latherer, leaflets, leathers, realters, reflates, refutals, refuters, relaters, resalute, selfheal, terrella, treasure, ureteral, urethrae, urethral, urethras. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6C 6C 65 72 27 73 45 61 72 74 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 00100111 01110011 00100000 01000101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u l l e r ' s   E a r t h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006C 006C 0065 0072 0027 0073 0045 0061 0072 0074 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40877878718498523967848674 |
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