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Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is som…

To adorn as with a brooch. [R.]

A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

uilt, clipper-built, etc. Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built. Landor.

A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; -- a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

passing; indirectly; by implication. [Obs. except in the phrase by the bye.] The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England. Fuller.

Adorned with cabling.

A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.

al liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]

t Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.

ent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.

genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.

A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.

atoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually appli…

A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. Watts.

ed with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of goats or sweat.

An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the ermy.

A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. Tennyson.

a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.