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A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

ed and the oxygen given out. -- Carbonic oxide (Chem.), a colorless gas, CO, of a light odor, called more correctly carbon monoxide. It is almost the only definitely known compound in which carbon seems to be divalent. It is a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon, and is an abundant constituent of water gas.…

Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.

A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).

shions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

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

Cascarilla bark (or Cascarila) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.…

racted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.

A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.

Of the nature of an onion, as in odor; alliaceous.

A fact or truth unquestionable established. Certainties are uninteresting and sating. Landor.

Inactive; dormant [Obs.] W. Montagu.

To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers. R. Browning.

the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.

-- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.

ow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fl…