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- Rubber - n. - One who, or that which, rubs.
- Rubber - n. - An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.
- Rubber - n. - A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
- Rubber - n. - A whetstone; a rubstone.
- Rubber - n. - An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.
- Rubber - n. - The cushion of an electrical machine.
- Rubber - n. - One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.
- Rubber - n. - Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.
- Rubber - n. - In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.
- Rubber - n. - India rubber; caoutchouc.
- Rubber - n. - An overshoe made of India rubber.
- Deckle - n. - A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper.
- Poncho - n. - A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.
- Caoutchouc - n. - A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization.
- Linoleum - n. - Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.
- Rabot - n. - A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.
- Eraser - n. - One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.
- Tambour - n. - A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
- Elastic - a. - Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
- Rubber - n. - In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.
- Gum - n. - A rubber overshoe.
- Boot - n. - An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
- Vulcanite - n. - Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.
- Impermeable - a. - Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air.
- Squilgee - n. - Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc.
- Runner - n. - A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
- Parkesine - n. - A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.
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- H7880 שִׂיחַ - 7880 שִׂיחַ - שִׂיחַ - - sîyach - see'-akh - from שִׂיחַ; a shoot (as if uttered or put forth), i.e. (generally) shrubbery; bush, plant, shrub. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H2218 זֶרֶד - 2218 זֶרֶד - זֶרֶד - - Zered - zeh'-red - from an unused root meaning to be exuberant in growth; lined with shrubbery; Zered, a brook East of the Dead Sea; Zared, Zered. - Proper Name Location - x-pn