hartshorn : Idioms & Phrases

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Hartshorn plantain

  • (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); called also duck's-horn. Booth.
Webster 1913

Hartshorn shavings

  • originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert.
Webster 1913

Salt of hartshorn

  • (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.
  • . (Old Chem.) (a) Sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride . (b) Ammonium carbonate Cf. Spirit of hartshorn, under Hartshorn.
Webster 1913

Spirit of hartshorn

  • . (Old Chem.) See under Hartshorn.
Webster 1913

Spirits of hartshorn

  • (Chem.), a solution of ammonia in water; so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name.
Webster 1913