Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AL-TIN'CAR
AL'TINAL-TIS'O-NANT, or AL-TIS'O-NOUS
AL-TIN'CAR, n.
A species of factitious salt or powder, used in the fusion and purification of metals, prepared in various ways. [See Tincal.] – Encyc.
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