EGAVE

isinglass

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A form of gelatin obtained from the air bladder of the sturgeon and certain other fish, used as an adhesive and as a clarifying agent for wine and beer.
  2. noun A thin, transparent sheet of mica (probably from its similarity to true isinglass and/or resulting from confusion with the term Muscovy glass for glazing made from mica, but also used for isinglass, which was chiefly produced in the Caspian Sea region of Russia, or Muscovy).

Similar words

mica plaster carlock fish glue ichthyocolla glass eel ganoine sea grape ichthidin gas bladder

Often followed by

is and in plaster or windows of window size

Word family

isinglasses

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