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One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

Chem.), the theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or electrical affinities.

ttersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a).

Sweetened; mollified. Dulcified spirit or spirits, a compound of alcohol with mineral acids; as, dulcified spirits of niter.

A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Tænia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.

A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.

A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.

To compound of elements or first principles. [Obs.] "[Love] being elemented too." Donne.

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.

A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

appearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of orname…

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equiv…

ecies of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.

Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances.