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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as :

2. A mortar made of sand and cement.

3. A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.

4. A composition for billiard balls.

5. A preparation of which printer's rollers are made.

6. A preparation used in currying leather.

7. Composition paid by a debtor.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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