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ome element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.

A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

all fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic ti…

A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.

An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.

A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise. Upon the rising of the curtain. I was very much surprised with the great consort of catcalls which was exhibited. Addison.

One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystaline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.

To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. Coleridge.

The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats. Shak.

To cry like a crow, rook, or raven. Rising and cawing at the gun's report. Shak.

strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.

of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every…

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.