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prepared by the Dutch, similar to Indian red. -- Hypericum red, a red resinous dyestuff extracted from Hypericum. -- Indian red. See under Indian, and Almagra.

To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.

stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.

d of the oxalic series found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens, and extracted as a white crystalline substance C17H32O4.

n instrument similar to the hurdy- gurdy. Well could he sing and play on a rote. Chaucer. extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.

One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.

od prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.

a drink composed of rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or lemon juice, with some flavoring extract.

An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron. [R.]

A glucoside found in the leaves of several species of willow (Salix) and poplar, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.salicyl alcohol glucoside, salicyl alcohol b-D- glucopyranoside, saligenin b-D-glucopyranoside, C13H18O7. It is used in biochemistry as a standard substrate for evaluating the potency o…

ss crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.

A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphus powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anæstesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quilaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related…

A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.

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

A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.