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A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

A common work horse; a gelding. [Obs.] He'll buy me a cut, forth for to ride. Beau. & Fl.

To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.

use to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet. And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume. Sir W. Scott.

thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley.

O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved! Milton. He pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion. Macaulay.

Disorder; dissoluteness. [Obs.] Excess of rideordination. Jer. Taylor.

To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other better part. Spenser.

To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision called. Milton.

air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.

Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride.

tion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.

seless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

Relating or tending to discontent. [R.] "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.

on steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. Addison.

To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.

bstances; as, the dissociation of the sulphur molecules; the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia.