Definitions for pearlashes

pearlashes pearl·ash

Spelling: [purl-ash]
IPA: /ˈpɜrlˌæʃ/

Pearlashes is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 553 anagrams from letters in pearlashes (aaeehlprss).

Definitions for pearlashes

noun

  1. commercial potassium carbonate.

Origin of pearlashes

First recorded in 1720-30; pearl1 + ash1

Examples for pearlashes

Potassium carbonate or Carbonate of Potash (pearlash) is extensively used by laundresses and in the dressing of woollen cloth.

pearlash and warm water will sometimes do alone, but it is the most efficacious to use the soap-lather and pearlash together.

Every thing mixed with pearlash should be put in the oven immediately.

pearlash has the same effect upon all summer vegetables, rendered tough by being too old.

After careful cleansing, the gut is split up into strands, and treated with a bath of pearlash water for several days.

After slaking the lime in water add the pearlash, and let the mixture be made of a consistence about the same as that of paint.

If cheese get hard, and lose its flavour, pour some sweet wine over four ounces of pearlash, till the liquor ceases to ferment.

Add at the last a very small tea-spoonful of pearlash, or of bi-carbonate of soda, dissolved in a large wine-glass of brandy.

Thousands of wagon loads of pure saleratus and pearlash could be got here.

The colour may be varied by substituting alum for pearlash, or by the addition of a little spirits of tin.

Word Value for pearlashes
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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