||Dé`gras" (?), Deg"ras (&?;),
n. [F.; cf. F. gras, a. & n., fat.] A
semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with
oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was
formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is
now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for
hides.
||Dé`gras" (?), Deg"ras (&?;),
n. [F.; cf. F. gras, a. & n., fat.] A
semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with
oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was
formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is
now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for
hides.
||Dé`gras" (?), Deg"ras (&?;),
n. [F.; cf. F. gras, a. & n., fat.] A
semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with
oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was
formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is
now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for
hides.
||Dé`gras" (?), Deg"ras (&?;),
n. [F.; cf. F. gras, a. & n., fat.] A
semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with
oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was
formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is
now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for
hides.