French oil of turpentine

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• turpentine — ► NOUN 1) (also crude or gum turpentine) a resinous oily substance secreted by certain pines and other trees and distilled to make rosin and oil of turpentine. 2) (also oil of turpentine) a volatile pungent oil distilled from this, used in mixing …   English terms dictionary

• Turpentine — For other uses, see Turpentine (disambiguation). Turpentine (also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, and wood turpentine) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from trees, mainly pine trees. It is composed of… …   Wikipedia

• Oil pastel — (also called wax oil crayon) is a painting and drawing medium with characteristics similar to pastels and wax crayons. Unlike soft or French pastel sticks, which are made with a gum or methyl cellulose binder, oil pastels consist of pigment mixed …   Wikipedia

• Oil painting — Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–06 Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled w …   Wikipedia

• turpentine — I. noun Etymology: Middle English terbentyne, turpentyne, from Anglo French & Medieval Latin; Anglo French terebentine, from Medieval Latin terbentina, from Latin terebinthina, feminine of terebinthinus of terebinth, from terebinthus terebinth,… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• turpentine — tur|pen|tine [ˈtə:pəntaın US ˈtə:r ] n [U] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: tourbentine, from Latin terebinthina, from terebinthus tree from which turpentine is obtained, from Greek terebinthos] a type of oil used for making paint more… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• turpentine — [14] Turpentine is nowadays used for an oil obtained from pine trees, but it originally denoted the ‘resin of the terebinth’, a small European tree of the sumach family. The name of the terebinth is probably of non Indo European origin. It was… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• turpentine — [14] Turpentine is nowadays used for an oil obtained from pine trees, but it originally denoted the ‘resin of the terebinth’, a small European tree of the sumach family. The name of the terebinth is probably of non Indo European origin. It was… …   Word origins

• Painterwork — accomplishes two things, namely the preservation and the coloration of the material painted. The compounds used for painting, taking the word as meaning a thin protective or decorative coat, are very numerous, including oil paint of many kinds,… …   Wikipedia

• Rosin — For other uses, see Rosin (disambiguation). A cake of rosin, made for use by violinists, used here for soldering . Rosin, also called colophony or Greek pitch (Pix græca), is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly …   Wikipedia

• Paré, Ambroise — born 1510, Bourg Hersent, France died Dec. 20, 1590, Paris French physician and surgeon. Employed as an army surgeon in 1537, Paré preferred measures less drastic than those of other surgeons at the time (whose techniques included castration in… …   Universalium