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Megilp

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A medium for oil painting, consisting of linseed oil mixed with turpentine or mastic varnish.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

See magilp.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine

Word Usage

"As long as a painter is a painter merely, he should not be allowed to talk of anything but mediums and megilp, and on those subjects should be compelled to hold his tongue; it is only when he becomes an artist that the secret laws of artistic creation are revealed to him."

Equivalent

megilph

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

medium

Variant

magilp magilph