Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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magilp .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paint.) A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.
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- noun art A
medium foroil painting , consisting oflinseed oil mixed withturpentine ormastic varnish .
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- noun a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine
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Examples
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The same result may be obtained by the use of megilp, a mixture employed by artists.
The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents Douglas Blackburn 1893
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As long as a painter is a painter merely, he should not be allowed to talk of anything but mediums and megilp, and on those subjects should be compelled to hold his tongue; it is only when he becomes an artist that the secret laws of artistic creation are revealed to him.
Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877
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Van Eyck's manner) and those painted with oil alone, or with the modern megilp, (oil and mastic varnish,) is so well known that it is scarcely necessary to allude to it.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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