Pumice

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A light, porous, glassy lava, used in solid form as an abrasive and in powdered form as a polish and an abrasive.
  • v. To clean, polish, or smooth with pumice.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into the air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock.
  • v. To abrade or roughen with pumice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Lava having a loose, spongy or cellular structure; lava from which gas or steam has escaped in large quantities while it was becoming consolidated.
  • To polish, rub, or otherwise treat with pumicestone; especially, in silver-plating, to clean with pumice and water, as the surface of an article to be plated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen
  • n. a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive
  • Verb Form
    pumiced    pumices    pumicing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rub    stone    rock   
    Cross Reference
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lav   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scoria    tufa    tuff    ironstone    clinkers    basalt    obsidian    gypsum    lava    slag