Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A black, viscous natural bitumen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. thick mineral pitch
- n. mineral tar
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.
- n. Mortar.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bituminous substance midway in consistency between asphaltum and petroleum.
- n. Haeckel's term for the gelatinous ground-substance or mesoglcea and contained cells of various kinds, which forms the skeletogenous layer in sponges.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt
Etymologies
Examples
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The Greek language has contributed "maltha," to melt; the German "schmeltz," the old
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I felt a sudden flush and the child in my womb moved, stirred by the earth, the blood-red clay, Southern dirt laden with maltha, gilsonite and iron, feeding the unspeakable hunger.
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Thus they form a heterogeneous assemblage of liquid hydrocarbons, of which naphtha and maltha may be said to form the extremes, and which have little in common, except their undefinable name.
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Among different bituminous substances, the names _naphtha_ and _petrolium_ have been given to those which are fluid, _maltha_, to that which has the consistence of pitch, and _asphaltum_ to that which is solid.
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Among different bituminous substances, the names _naphtha_ and _petroleum_ have been given to those which are fluid; _maltha_, to that which has the consistence of pitch; and _asphaltum_, to that which is solid.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
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