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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,521 words match “RID”

TRISACCHARIDE; TRISACCHARID n.
A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.
TUBULARIDA n.
An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariæ.
UNABRIDGED a.
Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.
UNBRIDLE v.
To free from the bridle; to set loose.
UNBRIDLED a.
Loosed from the bridle, or as from the bridle; hence, unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled passions. "Unbridled boldness." B. Jonson. Lands deluged by unbridled floods. Wordsworth. -- Un*bri"dled*ness, n. Abp. Leighton.
UNRIDDLE v.
To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery. Macaulay. And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust. Parnell.
UNRIDDLER n.
One who unriddles. Lovelace.
UPRIDGED a.
Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged. Cowper.
VALERIDINE n.
A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.
VERIDICAL a.
Truth-telling; truthful; veracious. [R.] Carlyle.
VIRID a.
Green. [Obs.] The virid marjoram Her sparkling beauty did but see. Crompton.
VIRIDESCENCE n.
Quality or state of being viridescent.
VIRIDESCENT a.
Slightly green; greenish.
VIRIDINE n.
ng of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.
VIRIDITE n.
A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
VIRIDITY n. 2 definitions
Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage.
VIRIDNESS n.
Viridity; greenness.
WATER BRIDGE n.
See Water table.
WATER PARTRIDGE n.
The ruddy duck. [Local, U. S.]
WEIGHBRIDGE n.
A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
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