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Pounce

Powdered gum sandarac generally passes under this name; it is able adhesive liquid reduced to a fine spray, used to prepare parchment for writing on, and or in what is commonly called the atomized or to prevent ink from spreading on paper after pulverized state, by causing the liquid to pass erasure. Powdered cuttle-fish bone is occa- rapidly under pressure through one or more sionally used in the same way. Packers rub capillary tubes or openings. By this method the surface of porous and greasy wood with a the defects of the transudation process are pounce consisting of whiting or powdered entirely done away with, besides which the resin, to make it bear the ink. The colored operation is executed in less time, and may powders (usually ultramarine) used by pat- be performed at once by the artist without tern drawers, for sprinkling over pricked pa- the slightest difficulty. For the fixing liquid , pers, are also called pounce. any colorless, or nearly colorless liquid, which