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sandarac(dictionary)

visitant (iou) and sandarac (iou)


visitant (iou)



visitant noun & adjective. L16.
[French, pres. pple of visiter, or Latin visitant- pres. ppl stem of visitare: see VISIT verb, -ANT1.]
A. noun.
A person who visits a place, another person, etc.; a visitor, now esp. a supernatural one. L16.
T. Jefferson Not written by a Virginian, but a visitant from another State. T. C. Wolfe Suddenly Cook appeared like a spectral visitant.
A thing which affects or comes to a person, esp. for a temporary period. M18.
L. Strachey Her smile, so rare a visitant to those saddened features.
= VISITOR 4b. L18.
b. adjective. Of the Nature of a visitant; visiting. arch. or poet. M17.
A. Hecht Vapor, like a visitant ghost, Hovers above a lake..before the dawn.

sandarac (iou)



sandarac noun. Also sandarach. LME.
[Latin sandaraca from Greek sandarake, -akhe, of Asiatic origin.]
= REALGAR. LME.
= bee-bread (b) s.v. BEE noun1. E17-M18.
A resin obtained from either of two coniferous trees, Tetraclinis articulata of NW Africa and (more fully Australian sandarac) Callitris endlicheri of Australia, which is used in the preparation of varnishes and (formerly) for blotting ink. Also gum sandarac. M17.