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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 886 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KOHL . (I) The name of the cosmetic used from the earliest times in the See also:

East by See also:

WOMEN

women to darken the eyelids, in See also:

order to increase the lustre of the eyes. It is usually composed of finely powdered See also:

ANTIMONY (symbol Sb, atomic weight 120.2)

antimony, but See also:

SMOKE (from O. Eng. smeocan, to smoke, reek, cf. Dutch meek, Ger. Schmauch, probably allied to Gr. vol9caiv)

smoke See also:

black obtained from burnt See also:

ALMOND (from the O. Fr. almande or alemande, late Lat. amandola, derived through a form amingdola from the Gr. l uybian, an almond; the al- for a- is probably due to a confusion with the Arabic article al, the word having first dropped the a- as in the It

almond-shells or See also:

FRANKINCENSE

frankincense is also used. The Arabic word kohl, from which has been derived " See also:

ALCOHOL

alcohol," is derived from kabala, to stain. (2) " Kohl " or " kohl-rabi " (See also:

cole-See also:

rape, from See also:

Lat. caulis, See also:

CABBAGE

cabbage) is a See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of cabbage (q.v.), with a See also:

TURNIP

turnip–shaped See also:

TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top, cultivated chiefly as See also:

food for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle.

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