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Parchment paper
Note: Paper is often used adjectively or in combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker; paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight, or paperweight, etc. Business paper, checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to accommodation paper. Fly paper, paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used for catching flies. Laid paper. See under Laid. Paper birch (Bot.), the canoe birch tree (Betula papyracea). Paper blockade, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval force. Paper boat (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper. Paper car wheel (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between two plate-iron disks. --Forney. Paper credit, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such as promissory notes, duebills, etc. Paper hanger, one who covers walls with paper hangings. Paper hangings, paper printed with colored figures, or otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper. Paper house, an audience composed of people who have come in on free passes. [Cant] Paper money, notes or bills, usually issued by government or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money, and circulated as the representative of coin. Paper mulberry. (Bot.) See under Mulberry. Paper muslin, glazed muslin, used for linings, etc. Paper nautilus. (Zo["o]l.) See Argonauta. Paper reed (Bot.), the papyrus. Paper sailor. (Zo["o]l.) See Argonauta. Paper stainer, one who colors or stamps wall paper. --De Colange. Paper wasp (Zo["o]l.), any wasp which makes a nest of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket. Paper weight, any object used as a weight to prevent loose papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise. Parchment paper. See Papyrine. Tissue paper, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books. Wall paper. Same as Paper hangings, above. Waste paper, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless, except for uses of little account. Wove paper, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked.
Parchmentize
Parchmentize Parch"ment*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. -ized; p. pr. & vb. n. -izing.] To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.

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- Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing...
- Parchment paper, also known as a vegetable parchment or baking paper, is a cellulose-based composite that has been processed to give it additional properties...
- The Chinon Parchment is a historical do****ent discovered in September 2001 by Barbara Frale, an Italian paleographer at the Vatican Apostolic Archive...
- membrane, typically used as writing material. It is often distinguished from parchment, either by being made from calfskin (rather than the skin of other animals)...
- Look up parchment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Parchment is a thin material most often used as pages of a book or m****cript. Parchment may also...
- Nine Parchments is a twin stick action role-playing game developed and published by Frozenbyte. The game was released for Nintendo Switch, Windows, and...
- The Parchments of Avroman (or Awraman) are three parchment do****ents, found in 1909 in a cave in the Hawraman region of Iranian Kurdistan. They were found...
- Hansle Parchment (born 17 June 1990) is a Jamaican track and field athlete, competing in the 110 metres hurdles. He is the reigning Olympic champion in...
- papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing. A scroll is usually partitioned into pages, which are sometimes separate sheets of papyrus or parchment glued...
- perform a transposition cipher, consisting of a cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which is written a message. The ancient Gr****s, and...