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designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.

Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man. Psychophysical time (Physiol.), the time required for the mind to transform a sensory impression into a motor impulse. It is an important part of physiological or reaction time. See under Reaction.…

tion and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

Same as Tetrabasic.

Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the bladder.

Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.

Affected with seasickness.

The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound.

Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws. Something superphysical and superchemical. J. Le Conte.

The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.

es of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.

Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.

Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.

Consumptive, phthisical.

Consumptive, phthisical.

The Triassic formation.

onacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.