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menstruum [′men·strə·wəm] (materials) A solvent, commonly one that extracts certain principles from entire plant or animal tissues. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But Ikey was timid, and his hopes remained insoluble in the menstruum of his backwardness and fears. Water dissolves wood and iron and salt; air dissolves water; electric fire dissolves air, but the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws, method, and the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum. |
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