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The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

A subclass of algæ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.

See Borofluoride.

A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical. Calcium fluoride (Min.), fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite.

Same as Feticide.

The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.

The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

Anything that kills fungi. -- Fun`gi*ci"dal, n.

One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.

uctive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases. -- n.

The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant. Hallam.

lent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. The river glideth at his own sweet will. Wordsworth.

p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, glides.

Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal.

One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always b…

A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.

A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also glycidic alcohol.

us powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid. [Written also glycollide.]