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See Pannier. [Obs.] Pepys.

A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.

Of or pertaining to Paraguay. -- n.

can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South.

lso, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal (Bot.) See Blue curls, under Blue.

A salt of persulphocyanic acid. [R.]

Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline substance (called also perthiocyanic acid), analogous to sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.

ow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and formerly sulphocyanogen.

Same as Persulphocyanogen.

A blue coloring matter found in certain algæ.

A blue coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll. [Written also phyllocyanine.]

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of South America, having lancet-shaped teeth.

A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid compound of platinous cyanide and hydrocyanic acid. It is obtained as a cinnaber-red crystalline substance.

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. Bartlett.

laced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.

A polyacoustic instrument.

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.