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- Soap - n. - A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
- Soap - v. t. - To rub or wash over with soap.
- Soap - v. t. - To flatter; to wheedle.
- Soapberry tree - - Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.
- Soaped - imp. & p. p. - of Soap
- Soapfish - n. - Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.
- Soapiness - n. - Quality or state of being soapy.
- Soaping - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Soap
- Soaproot - n. - A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.
- Soapstone - n. - See Steatite, and Talc.
- Soapsuds - n. pl. - Suds made with soap.
- Soapwort - n. - A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.
- Soapy - superl. - Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.
- Soapy - superl. - Smeared with soap; covered with soap.
- Abstergent - n. - A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
- Saponification - n. - The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.
- Soapberry tree - - Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.
- Stearate - n. - A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
- Castile soap - - A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.
- Quillaia bark - - The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of soap. Also called soap bark.
- Crotonine - n. - A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.
- Soap - n. - A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
- Saponin - n. - A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.
- Graining - n. - The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
- Phoneidoscope - n. - An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.
- Lather - n. - Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
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- H1253 בֹּר - 1253 בֹּר - בֹּר - - bôr - bore - the same as בֹּר; vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals; [idiom] never so, purely. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H8562 תַּמְרוּק - 8562 תַּמְרוּק - תַּמְרוּק - - tamrûwq - tam-rook' - or תַּמְרֻק; or תַּמְרִיק; from מָרַק; properly, a scouring, i.e. soap or perfumery forthe bath; figuratively, a detergent; [idiom] cleanse, (thing for) purification(-fying). - Noun Masculine - heb
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- Malachi 39 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
כּוּל יוֹם בּוֹא עָמַד רָאָה צָרַף אֵשׁ כָּבַס בֹּרִית - Jeremiah 24 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
כָּבַס נֶתֶר רָבָה בֹּרִית עָוֺן כָּתַם פָּנִים נְאֻם אֲדֹנָי יְהֹוִה