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linseed

[ US /ˈɫɪnˌsid/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪnsiːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the seed of flax used as a source of oil

How To Use linseed In A Sentence

  • It was an old-fashioned mill for grinding linseed, expressing the oil, and making oil-cake.
  • To start, pour a small amount of dry pigment forming a mound onto a nonporous slab surface, such as glass or marble; then, make an impression in the center of the mound and, into that, pour a small amount of linseed or other oil. Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints
  • It also contains a number of grains, soaked overnight: linseed, rolled oats, polenta, sunflower seeds, purple kibbled wheat and sesame seeds.
  • After my husband laid them, I sealed them with a 50/50 linseed oil and mineral spirits mix (3 coats) and then my husband grouted them. Sealing saltillo tiles
  • In addition to treating with insecticides, legs may be dipped in a mixture of two parts raw linseed oil and kerosene.
  • Oilseeds often contain toxic or undesirable factors such as gossypol in cottonseed, trypsin inhibitor in soya beans and cyanogenetic glucosides in linseed, whereas groundnuts have been noted as being particularly vulnerable to mycotoxin formation. Chapter 6
  • The many thousands of grains comprise not just emmer and naked barley, but also bread wheat - which points clearly to the Neolithic - and linseed.
  • Oil paints are made up of a suspension of pigments in an oil such as linseed oil that dries.
  • For older stains use a paste of rottenstone, baking soda or cigarette ashes mixed with mineral oil, linseed oil, or lemon oil.
  • No longer do we have to deal with hot bluing or boiled linseed oil.
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