Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Combined with or containing borax or boric acid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mixed or treated with boracic acid or borax or with both.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective mixed or impregnated with borax.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having been treated with
borate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective mixed or impregnated with borax
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Unless you KNOW the person producing the film, you are pretty much guaranteed to be "borated" today.
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Unless you KNOW the person producing the film, you are pretty much guaranteed to be "borated" today.
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= -- The treatment of prickly heat, occurring in hot weather, consists in avoiding heat as much as possible and sponging the surface with cold water, and then dusting it with some simple powder, as starch or flour, or better, borated talcum.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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Carbolized, borated, and corrosive-sublimate gauze have little special value.
The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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If the nipples are sufficiently prominent, little need be done for them except to wash them with a little boric acid solution (one teaspoonful of boric acid to a glass of water) occasionally, and now and then to rub in a little petrolatum, plain or borated.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Early in their first appearance they may be treated with spirits of camphor or plain alcohol, which sometimes tends to abort them; but they usually run their course, and when they are fully developed they may be treated with zinc oxide, simple borated vaseline, or ichthyol.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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The folds and creases of their skin must be kept dry and powdered with borated talcum.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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An advantage of this borated oil is that it always retains a slight stickiness, and so gives a good joint when wrapped around wires, etc. Many substances so used are not sticky and let moisture in through the joints.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 Various
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I knew one who never stirred without borated talcum powder; another who must have his mouth-organ; a third who was miserable without a small bottle of salad dressing; I confess to a pair of light buckskin gloves.
The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909
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The scorched surface should be covered with this liniment and then with a layer of borated gauze or absorbent cotton, to protect from the air.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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