Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rhusma

Rhusma , noun

[See Rusma.]

A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides. — Knight

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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