tripoli
IPA: trˈɪpʌɫi
Root Word: Tripoli
noun
- The capital city of Libya.
- A city in Greece. Former name: Tripolis.
- A city in Lebanon.
- A city in Iowa, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States.
- (geology) A sedimentary rock composed of the shells of diatoms etc., used for polishing.
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Examples of "tripoli" in Sentences
- This kind of tripoli has been lately dif - covered in Scotland.
- The polishing may afterwards be completed with a bit of serge or cloth, without tripoli.
- Do you know that Syrian mukhabarat selected `Atallah to lead the pro-Syrian forces that attacked tripoli in the 1980s?
- Or, the powdered tripoli may be mixed up with a little pure oil, and used upon a ball of serge, or of chamois leather, which is better.
- Fish and insects, which are frequently found in strata of tripoli, which lie under sulphur beds, induce the belief that lakes formerly existed in Sicily.
- _ -- Calcareous marl; gypsum, etc.; sulphur embedded in calcareous limestone; silicious limestone; tripoli, containing fossils of fish, insects 'eggs, etc.
- Not only does the treaty of tripoli signed by president madison say that THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION, it also states mutually that we are in no way an enemy of islam, and vice versa.
- Putty powder, and even common whiting and water, are sometimes used for polishing; but they produce a very inferior effect to tripoli, except in the case of ivory, for which putty and water, used upon a rubber made of a hat, forms the best and quickest polish.
- In spite of what is to be found in books as to the ease with which nickel deposits may be polished, I find that the mat surface obtained by plating on an imperfectly polished cathode of iron is by no means easily polished either by fine emery, tripoli, or rouge.
- Take 2 ozs. of tripoli, reduced to fine powder; put it into an earthen pot or basin, with water to cover it; then take a piece of fine flannel, four times doubled, lay it over a piece of cork or rubber, and proceed to polish your varnish, always wetting it with the tripoli and water.
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