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DYAD a. 3 definitions

ed for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.

Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements. Dyadic arithmetic, the same as binary arithmetic.

; sing. Dyak. (Ethnol.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.

Frightful. [Obs.] Harvey.

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment. Milton.

A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.

EURYALE n. 2 definitions

A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.

A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.

EXTRAJUDICIAL CONVEYANCE n.

A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.

Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.

EYAS a. 2 definitions

Unfledged, or newly fledged. [Obs.] Like eyas hawk up mounts unto the skies, His newly budded pinions assay. Spebser.

An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [Obs.] Shak.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

FERRICYANATE n.

A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.

Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide. Ferricyanic acid (Chem.), a brown crystalline substance, H6(CN)12Fe2, obtained from potassium ferricyanide, and regarded as the type of the ferricyanides; -- called also hydro-ferricyanic acid, hydrogen ferricyanide, etc.

FERRICYANIDE n.

One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base. Potassium ferricyanide (Chem.), red prussiate of potash; a dark, red, crystalline salt, K6(CN)12Fe2, consisting of the double cyanide of potassium and ferric iron. From it is derived the ferrous ferricyanate, Turnbull's blue.…

FERROCYANATE n.

A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.