rhusma

English

Etymology

See rusma.

Noun

rhusma (usually uncountable, plural rhusmas)

  1. A mixture of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, used in the depilation of hides.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rhusma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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