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Alum

noun

A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum. Synonyms: ammonia alum, ammonium alum.

A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum. Synonyms: potash alum, potassium alum.

A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university). Synonyms: alumna, alumnus, grad, graduate.

A double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things).

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"Alum" Quotes from Famous Books

... well a teaspoonful of alum and a tablespoonful of water and place it in a hot oven until quite transparent. Wash the broken pieces in hot water, dry them, and while still warm coat the broken edges thickly; then press together very quickly, for it ...

— Fowler's Household Helps • A. L. Fowler

... The best is a heaping table-spoonful of powdered mustard, in a tumblerful of warm water; or powdered alum in half-ounce doses and strong coffee alternately in warm water. Give acid drinks after vomiting. If vomiting is not elicited thus, a stomach pump is demanded. Dash cold water on the head, apply friction, and use all means to keep the person awake ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... rests are much better than long stops, which have a tendency to stiffen the muscles. The walker on a long tramp must pay especial attention to the care of his feet. They should be bathed frequently in cold water to which a little alum has been added. A rough place or crease in the stocking will sometimes cause a very ...

— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

... issue, we feel that the slender tale of a boy's passion for the queen of courtesans and his metamorphosis into the scarlet windflower of the forest supplied no worthy motive for this intricate machinery. The metaphor of an alum basket crystallized upon a petty frame of wire occurs to us when we contemplate its glittering ornaments, and reflect upon the poverty of the sustaining theme. It might in fact stand for a symbol ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds

... dangerous to remain long in such a place; and so she prepared to move away, and Rollo and Josie, as they had now seen all that there was to be seen at this place, followed her. They went on by the road, round to another part of the crater, where there was some sort of manufactory of alum. The alum was made from the saline earth which was found there, and the evaporating basins used in the process, instead of being placed over a fire, were simply set in the ground, so that the process of evaporation was carried on by the natural ...

— Rollo in Naples • Jacob Abbott

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