soap
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1. soap - Noun
2. soap - Verb
3. Soap - Proper noun
Meaning
To flatter; to wheedle.
A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
To rub or wash over with soap.
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According to the context of Aztec culture in literature, the soap that they most likely used was the root of a plant called copalxocotl ( Saponaria americana), citation and to clean their clothes they used the root of metl ( Agave americana ).
According to Yeruham Eniss the village had a soap factory that supplied the large Jewish community of nearby Chortkow with jobs selling and trading in soap.
About 25 pounds of soap was recommended for a party of four, for bathing and washing clothes.
A freely floating soap bubble therefore approximates a sphere (though such external forces as gravity will slightly distort the bubble's shape).
After 40 seconds of that, it is time to wash the soap off.
Actress Rose Ayling-Ellis will make her debut as Frankie on the soap as the Square's residents reel from the boat crash - which killed off Dennis Mitchell and saw Ben sustain a nasty head injury.