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Either of two metameric nitrogenous hydrocarbon bases, C12H8N2, analogous to phenanthridine, but more highly nitrogenized.

A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.

Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous to the phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation.

esignating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.

The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.

A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.

nd allied substances. Phthalic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO2H)2, analogous to benzoic acid, and employed in the brilliant dyestuffs called the phthaleins.

ber or quantity. -- To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. -- To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. -- To pick up. (a) To take up, as with the fingers. (b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up…

The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.

f (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.

A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases.

s by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law." Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor.

Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.

esides having the cavity for the pulp, is either perforated or grooved by a longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of the poison gland terminates. See Illust. under Fang. -- Poison gland (Biol.), a gland, in animals or plants, which secretes an acrid or venomous matter, that is conveyed along an organ…

An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.

specially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.

A level stretch in a canal between locks.