Search the Dictionary

, as a thick liquid. It is a hydroxyl derivative of propionic acid, and has both acid and alcoholic properties.

combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

ves of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also glycidic alcohol.

f a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.

is a sirupy, or white crystalline, substance, HO.CH2.CO2H, has the properties both of an alcohol and an acid, and is a type of the hydroxy acids; -- called also hydroxyacetic acid.

o nine atoms of carbon in the molecules and having the constitution either of an aldehyde alcohol or of a ketone alcohol. Most glycoses have hydrogen and oxygen present in the proportion to form water, while the number of carbon atoms is usually equal to the number of atoms of oxygen.

A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos. Malcom.

edrite. -- Gray duck (Zoöl.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. -- Gray falcon (Zoöl.) the peregrine falcon. -- Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar. -- Gray hen (Zoöl.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See Heath grouse. -- Gray mill or millet (Bot.), a name of several plants of the ge…

A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks. [Bengal] Malcom.

A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidæ. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons.…

A falconer.

emember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony." Longfellow.

Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. .

A chief or great heresy. [R.] The book itself [the Alcoran] consists of heresiarchies against our blessed Savior. Sir T. Herbert.

is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.

A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer.

of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.