How To Use spermaceti In A Sentence
- Some ziphiids are pursued by whalers for their oil and spermaceti.
- It was then that spermaceti, which is made from the oil of the sperm whale came on the scene.
- Spermaceti was known, probably from classical times onwards, as a rare and precious unguent, "resolutive and mollifying," as M. Pomel, "chief druggist to the late French King Louis XIV," says in his treatise on drugs, translated into English in 1737. More Science From an Easy Chair
- Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers when carved; of its little dishes of pastry --- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. The Uncommercial Traveller
- Candles were also made from spermaceti, which is a substance taken from the head of the sperm whale. Stories of American Life and Adventure
- _Spermaceti_, an oily substance, found in the head of a species of whale, called the spermaceti whale. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
- From 1700 for two centuries, thousands of sperm whales were killed and the oil in their heads called spermaceti was used to make candles.
- The valuable products of whaling, including whale oil, whalebone, and spermaceti for candle-making, provided the bulk of NSW's exports during the 1830s.
- There are other farms in other places, each devoted to a single bloom; there are even whaling boats on the Atlantic harvesting ambergris and spermaceti.
- The Sperm whale is the largest whale, and it's oil, called spermaceti, is the most valuable.
