Argil
clay, especially potter’s clay.
Historical Examples
The argil and soda soften the dye stuff of the copperas, but a small quantity must be put in.
Blacker’s Art of Fly Making, &c. William Blacker
Clayey; pertaining to, containing, or of the nature of clay or argil.
Cooley’s Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades…, Sixth Edition, Volume I Arnold Cooley
The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light.
The Temptation of St. Antony Gustave Flaubert
noun
clay, esp potters’ clay
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- Argillaceous
Geology, Petrology. of the nature of or resembling clay; clayey. containing a considerable amount of clayey matter. Historical Examples argillaceous rocks, composed essentially of particles of mud. The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology J. E. Marr From clay and chalk, or argillaceous river-mud and chalk or limestone, calcined together, and then ground to powder. Cooley’s Cyclopdia […]
- Argilliferous
adjective containing or yielding clay: argilliferous rocks
- Argillite
any compact sedimentary rock composed mainly of clay materials; clay stone. Historical Examples The fact that argillite continued in use until the very last does not affect this conclusion. Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 Various Next above the Altyn lies thirty-four hundred feet of Appekunny argillite, or dull-green shale. The Book of the National […]
- Arginase
a liver enzyme that converts arginine to urea. arginase ar·gi·nase (är’jə-nās’, -nāz) n. An enzyme found primarily in the liver that catalyzes the hydrolysis of arginine to urea and ornithine.
- Arginine
an essential amino acid, C 6 H 14 N 4 O 2 : the free amino acid increases insulin secretion and is converted to urea in the liver by arginase. Symbol: R. Abbreviation: Arg; Historical Examples In vertebrates, the basis for the phosphoric acid is creatine, whereas invertebrates have arginine instead. Smithsonian Institution – United […]