amurca

[ uh-mur-kuh ]

noun

1. the lees or sediment of olive oil.

Word History and Origins

Origin of amurca¹

< Latin < Greek amórgē

Example Sentences

Humor porro Oleaginosus aquam humiditate & fluiditate per se, accensus vero Ignem flamma prodit, fumo Aerem, fuligine, nidore & amurca terram.

From Project Gutenberg

The method of preserving it is this: immediately after the oil has been pressed out, draw off the amurca and boil it down to one-third and, when it has cooled, store it in vats.

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Some men even sprinkle their grain with amurca in the proportion of a quadrantal to every thousand modii of grain: others crumble or scatter over it, for the same purpose, other vermifuges like Chalcidian or Carian chalk or wormwood, and other things of that kind.

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When it flows from the oil mill, amurca is a watery fluid full of dregs.

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The walls and the floors should be plastered with a stucco of marble dust or at least with a mixture of clay and chaff and amurca, for amurca will serve to keep out mice and weevil and will make the grain solid and heavy.

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