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Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids.

Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin. Glyceric acid (Chem.), an organic acid, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycerin, as a thick liquid. It is a hydroxyl derivative of propionic acid, and has both acid and alcoholic properties.

Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide; as, glycidic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid. Glycolic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, found naturally in unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild grape (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), and produced artificially in many ways, as by the oxidation of glycol, -- whence its name. It is a sirupy, or…

Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.

and the principal plane is tangent to the surface of the sphere. "The gnomonic projection derives its name from the connection between the methods of describing it and those for the construction of a gnomon or dial." Cyc. of Arts & Sciences.

f Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite. Graphitic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, so called because obtained by the oxidation of graphite; -- usually called mellitic acid. -- Graphitic carbon, in iron or steel, that portion of the carbon which is present as graphite. Raymond.…

ificance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense. They derive an importance from . . . the gravity of the place where they were uttered. Burke.

A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.

A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus lævis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.

s in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the soun…

ata, and to the species of Ægilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.

Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Keble.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.

A solid hemihedrally derived. The tetrahedron is a hemihedron.

Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as, hendecatoic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, heptane; as, heptoic acid.

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

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