menstruum — ozdic

Definitions

noun

1

The menses; menstrual discharge.

2

A solvent.

Whenever any menstruum or other additament is employed, together with the fire, to obtain a sulphur or a salt from a body, we may well take the freedom to examine, whether or no the menstruum do barely help to separate the principle obtained by it...

[T]hat combustible sulphureous Body is presently prey'd upon and devoured by the aereal incompassing Menstruum, whose office in this Particular I have shewn in the Explication of Charcole.

3

Any liquid medium

Collocations

4

ADJ.

aereal, other

VERB + MENSTRUUM

incompassing

MENSTRUUM + NOUN

additament, barel, office

PREP.

in

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnan

menstruation
menses
catamenia
period
flow

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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Whenever any menstruum or other additament is employed, together with the fire, to obtain a sulphur or a salt from a body, we may well take the freedom to examine, whether or no the menstruum do barel

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02

[T]hat combustible sulphureous Body is presently prey'd upon and devoured by the aereal incompassing Menstruum, whose office in this Particular I have shewn in the Explication of Charcole.

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03

The analysis of mineral bodies... refined by the application of acid and alkaline menstrua, by Margraaf, Bergman, Bayen, and Achard, received still greater improvements from the labours of Klaprothk,

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