argil

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The argil and soda soften the dye stuff of the copperas, but a small quantity must be put in.

From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by Blacker, William

So they toiled up the stiff and slippery slope, and found a scatter of crate-huts crowning a bald head of yellow argil.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The argil lamps, suspended below these images, shed a flickering light.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave

A table in the centre exhibited curiosities of the rarest description: the shell of a Cauchoise cap, two argil urns, medals, and a phial124 of opaline glass.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

Further: Webster doubles the l in all the derivatives of metal, medal, coral, axil, argil, and papil; but writes it single in all those of crystal, cavil, pupil, and tranquil—except tranquillity.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold