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A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol.

A troop; a company. [Obs. or Poetic] Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings. Milton.

Containing less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under Spirit.

t is sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin.

of polarization to the right, although formed by the oxidation of a levorotatory amyl alcohol.

r derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.

The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

olume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.

ar worm. -- Vinegar lamp (Chem.), a fanciful name of an apparatus designed to oxidize alcohol to acetic acid by means of platinum. -- Vinegar plant. See 4th Mother. -- Vinegar tree (Bot.), the stag-horn sumac (Rhus typhina), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar. -- Wood vinegar. Se…

Of or pertaining to wine; as, vinic alcohol.

The conversion of a fruit juice or other saccharine solution into alcohol by fermentation.

having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of Shamrock. -- Wood spirit. (Chem.) See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl. -- Wood stamp, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood, for impressing figures or colors on fabrics. -- Wood star (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small South American humming birds belonging to the…

CH2, derived respectively from the three xylenes. Often used adjectively; as, xylylene alcohol.

A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling legumin; -- now called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or gluten casein.