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A remedy to destroy tapeworms.

Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monobasic acid; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement ba acids or acid atoms; -- said of certain bases; thus, erythrine, C4H6(OH)4, is a tetracid alcohol.

Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidæ.

Translucent. [R.] Bacon.

Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.

The act of killing. [Obs.]

A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.

Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant. Booth.

The act of killing a tyrant. Hume.

To reverse or recant, as a previous decision.

Of or pertaining to uxoricide; tending to uxoricide.

The murder of a wife by her husband.

The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet. "The caitiff vaticide." Pope.

A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer. Pereira.

lutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.

The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.

who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox. [Written also vulpecide.]

A binary compound of zinc. [R.]

ear according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.