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utch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.

A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.

some other. "To eke my pain." Spenser. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay.

A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.

f concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.

To compound of elements or first principles. [Obs.] "[Love] being elemented too." Donne.

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

ving only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.

A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

pearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of orname…

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equiv…

of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs.

es of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.

Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances.

Constituent substance. And uncompounded is their essence pure. Milton.