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A turbidness will instantly ensue, and a flocculent matter collect on the surface of the fluid, if the mixture be left undisturbed.

From A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Accum, Friedrich Christian

A microscopic examination of cholera stools shows that their turbidness depends chiefly upon desquamated epithelium, with which is mixed white corpuscles and bacteria.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The turbidness of it is not mud precisely.

From Rollo in Geneva by Abbott, Jacob

Yet, in the midst of the turbidness of adolescence, I was still two distinct personalities.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry

It possesses a slight degree of turbidness, and is esteemed for this property, which is considered to give it a retiring quality.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas