These are the meanings of the letters MORDANT when you unscramble them.
- Dormant (a.)
A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or \" sleep.\"
- Dormant (a.)
In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
- Dormant (a.)
Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
- Mordant (a.)
Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
- Mordant (a.)
Serving to fix colors.
- Mordant (n.)
Any corroding substance used in etching.
- Mordant (n.)
Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
- Mordant (n.)
Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
- Mordant (v. t.)
To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.