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Detergent   Listen
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Detergent  adj.  Cleansing; purging.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Detergent" Quotes from Famous Books



... clothes, and to clean colors in dyeing, in Chili and Brazil, but it turns linen yellow. The fruit of Bromelia Pinguin is equally useful. A vegetable soap was prepared some years ago in Jamaica from the leaves of the American aloe (Agave Americana) which was found as detergent as Castile soap for washing linen, and had the superior quality of mixing and forming a lather with salt water as well as fresh. Dr. Robinson, the naturalist, thus describes the process he adopted in 1767, and for which he was awarded a ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... with which he made of such occasion A duplicate detergent for our morals and our limbs— For he taught us that decorum was the essence of salvation, And that cleanliness and godliness were ...
— Successful Recitations • Various



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