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1. crutch, n. View full entry 1837
...Soap-boiling. A staff with a perforated piece of wood or iron at the end, used to stir the ingredients....
2. crutch, v.1 View full entry 1837
...trans.Soap-boiling. To stir with a crutch....
3. crutcher, n. View full entry 1885
...An apparatus in which the ingredients are stirred with a crutch....
4. fig, n.1 View full entry 1885
...Soap-making. (See quots.)...
5. figgy, adj. View full entry 1862
...In Soap-making: Containing white granulations, like the seeds of figs, of stearate of potash....
6. fit, n.4 View full entry 1885
...Soap-making. The condition of the liquid soap in the operation of ‘fitting’; see fit10....
7. fit, v.1 View full entry 1866
...Soap-making. To bring (a mass of fluid soap) into such a condition that it will separate into two strata, the upper purer than the lower....
8. fitting, n. View full entry 1860
...Soap-making. See fit10....
9. fob, n.3 View full entry 1857
...Soap-making. The scum or froth which rises to the top of the semi-liquid soap during a certain process of manufacture....
10. glue, n. View full entry 1885
...Soap-making. A name for the condition of soap at an early stage of its manufacture (see quot. 1885)....
11. grain, n.1 View full entry 1884
...Soap-making. (See quot. 1885.)...
12. hat, n. View full entry 1853
...In Soap-making: A depressed chamber in the bottom of a copper (see quot. 1885)....
13. Jack, n.1 View full entry c1865
...A vessel used in soap-making....
14. kelp, n.1 View full entry 1679
...The calcined ashes of seaweed used in commerce for the sake of the carbonate of soda, iodine, and other substances which they contain; large quantities were formerly used in the manufacture of...
15. kill, v. View full entry 1885
...to kill the goods: in soap-making, to emulsify the melted fat by a partial saponification....
16. mottle, v. View full entry 1602
...trans. To mark or dapple with spots, patches, or blotches; to variegate, to give or impart a mottled appearance to. Freq. in pass. Also fig....
17. mottling, n. View full entry 1839
...The production of a mottled appearance; the effect or appearance of being mottled; a pattern or arrangement of mottles....
18. nigre, n. View full entry 1853
...A dark-coloured solution of soap and impurities (colouring material, alkali, etc.) which settles out from the pure soap during the final stage of the manufacturing process....
19. orthophosphoric, adj. View full entry 1864
...the tribasic acid H3PO4, a crystalline acid obtained e.g. by treating phosphates with sulphuric acid, and used in fertilizer and soap manufacture and food processing. Cf. ...
20. pan, n.1 View full entry 1742
...Soap-making. A shallow container in which the fat or oil is mixed with alkali or in which saponification takes place, and from which soap can be skimmed or spent alkali drained...
