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India rubber   /ˈɪndiə rˈəbər/   Listen
noun
India  n.  A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan.
India ink, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls, or in square, and consists of lampblack or ivory black and animal glue. Called also China ink. The true India ink is sepia. See Sepia.
India matting, floor matting made in China, India, etc., from grass and reeds; also called Canton matting or China matting.
India paper, a variety of Chinese paper, of smooth but not glossy surface, used for printing from engravings, woodcuts, etc.
India proof (Engraving), a proof impression from an engraved plate, taken on India paper.
India rubber. See Caoutchouc.
India-rubber tree (Bot.), any tree yielding caoutchouc, but especially the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical leaves.


India rubber  n.  See Caoutchouc.


Rubber  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically:
(a)
An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.
(b)
A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
(c)
A whetstone; a rubstone.
(d)
An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc or a synthetic rubber(4).
(e)
The cushion of an electrical machine.
(f)
One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.
(g)
Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.
2.
In some games, as bridge or whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, which decides the winner when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. "A rubber of cribbage."
3.
India rubber; caoutchouc; gum elastic; also called natural rubber.
4.
Any substance, whether natural or synthetic, resembling India rubber with respect to its elasticity(1).
5.
A low-cut overshoe made of natural or synthetic rubber(4), serving to keep the feet and shoes dry when walking in the rain or on a wet surface; usually used in the plural.
6.
A condom. (Slang)
Antimony rubber, an elastic durable variety of vulcanized caoutchouc of a red color. It contains antimony sulphide as an important constituent.
Hard rubber, a kind of vulcanized caoutchouc which nearly resembles horn in texture, rigidity, etc.
India rubber, caoutchouc. See Caoutchouc.
Rubber cloth, cloth covered with caoutchouc for excluding water or moisture.
Rubber dam (Dentistry), a shield of thin sheet rubber clasped around a tooth to exclude saliva from the tooth.





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"India rubber" Quotes from Famous Books



... your casting-lines with water before you start for the river-side;" while a fourth instructs you never to straighten your lines with water, but by passing them through a piece of India rubber doubled between the finger ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 • Various
... water much used in gardens where pumping is practiced is the system of iron pipes laid underground, with hydrants distant 200 feet asunder, from which the water is distributed by 100 feet of India rubber hose. This is also the plan adopted by gardeners who make use of the ...
— Success With Small Fruits • E. P. Roe
... would go out of their way to teach the degenerate Brunai aristocracy how to govern in accordance with modern ideas; indeed, the Treaty we made with them, by prohibiting, for instance, their levying customs duties, or royalties, on the export of such jungle products as gutta percha and India rubber, in the collection of which the trees yielding them are entirely destroyed, and by practically suggesting to them the policy, or rather the impolicy, of imposing the heavy due of $1 per registered ton on all European Shipping entering their ports, whether in cargo or in ballast, scarcely tended ...
— British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo • W. H. Treacher
... He's very, very like me from the heels up to the head, And I see him jump before me when I jump into my bed. The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow, Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow, For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an India rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson
... its botanical gardens. Only those of Java compare with them in completeness. The long avenues of palms of different varieties—palmyra, talipot, sago, royal, sealing-wax—and the specimens of bamboo, India rubber, and rain-tree, are unique and wonderful. The rain-tree is so called because the vast spread of its branches and the density of its foliage collect the dew to such an extent as actually to water the ground upon which it drops. Think of viewing in one morning of ...
— A Tour of the Missions - Observations and Conclusions • Augustus Hopkins Strong


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