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THIOPHENIC a.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, thiophene; specifically, designating a certain acid analogous to benzoic acid.
THIOPHENOL n.
A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.
THIOPHTHENE n.
A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds. [Written also thiophtene.]
TOUGHEN v.
To grow or make tough, or tougher.
TRACHENCHYMA n.
A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.
TRIBROMOPHENOL; TRIBROMPHENOL n.
A colorless crystalline substance prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine.
TRINITROPHENOL n.
Picric acid.
UNBURTHEN v.
To unburden; to unload.
UNCOMPREHEND v.
To fail to comprehend. [R.] Daniel.
UNCOMPREHENSIVE a. 2 definitions
Unable to comprehend. Narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots. South.
UNSHENT a.
Not shent; not disgraced; blameless. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
UNWASHEN a.
Not washed. [Archaic] "To eat with unwashen hands." Matt. xv. 20.
WASHEN n.
p. p. of Wash. Chaucer.
WATER HEN n. 2 definitions
Any gallinule.
WHEN adv. 4 definitions
At what time; -- used interrogatively. When shall these things be Matt. xxiv. 3.
WHENAS conj.
Whereas; while [Obs.] Whenas, if they would inquire into themselves, they would find no such matter. Barrow.
WHENCE adv. 2 definitions
From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively. Whence hath this man this wisdom Matt. xiii. 54. Whence and what art thou Milton.
WHENCEEVER adv.
Whencesoever. [R.]
WHENCEFORTH adv.
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. [Obs.] Spenser.
WHENCESOEVER adv.
From what place soever; from what cause or source soever. Any idea, whencesoever we have it. Locke.
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