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d rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.

To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.

injurious accretion or influence. Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures. Eikon Basilike.

Having a reddish glow; shining. Parchments . . . colored with this rutilant mixture. Evelin.

A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions. Johnson.

A mixture of salt, coarse meal lime, etc., attractive to pigeons.

A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil. [Written also saponule.] [Obs.]

Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; -- said of colors.

ple extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.

To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper. "When mercy seasons justice." Shak.

That which is part fable and part truth; a mixture of truth and fable. De Quincey.

A believer in the old theory that the newly created being is formed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female.

Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.

A peculiar fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc.

licate shade of pink. White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades and mixtures, as green only in by the eyes. Locke.

A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer. [Eng.]

le steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. Dryden. All the boards did shrink. Coleridge.

To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.

A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell. To sophisticate the understanding. Southey. Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. M. Arnold. They purchase but sophisticated ware. Dryden.