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Barilla

noun
1.
Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash.  Synonyms: glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort.
2.
Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate.  Synonym: Halogeton souda.






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"Barilla" Quotes from Famous Books



... chief mate was discharged for drunkenness, and I got a lift. Marble was put in my place, and from that time, for the next five months, things went on smoothly enough; I say five months, for, instead of sailing for home direct, the ship went to Spain, within the Straits, for a cargo of barilla, which she took up to London, where she got a freight for Philadelphia. We were all a little uneasy, at finding that our story, with sundry perversions and exaggerations, were in the English papers; ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper

... seen a single groupe of boys bathing. The men, in the hottest day of summer, make use of warm water for washing the hands and face. They are unacquainted with the use of soap. We procured, in Pekin, a sort of Barilla with which and apricot oil we manufactured a sufficient quantity of this article to wash our linen, which, however, we were under the necessity of getting done by ...
— Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey thr • John Barrow

... made quite a sensation among them. We had divers visits from the officers, though I do not know what it all amounted to. From Carthagena we were sent down the coast to a little place called Aguilas, where we began to take in a cargo of barilla. At night we would discharge our shingle ballast into the water, contrary to law; and, in the day, we took in cargo. So clear was the water, that our night's work might easily be seen next morning, lying beneath the ship. As we lay in a ...
— Ned Myers • James Fenimore Cooper



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