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n. PuH'R Fr., mastic. Ger., Kitt. A pasty substance which hardens on drying, ordinarily made from whiting and linseed-oil, [a, 48.] Horsley's p. A preparation of white and yellow wax, vaseline, and carbolic acid; used to arrest bleeding from the cut surface of bone, [o, 34.] P.-root. See A PLECTRUM hiemale. [s. 362]