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Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances.

y the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen. Ethylene series (Chem.), the series if unsaturated hydr…

An instrument in which are combined the characteristic tones of the organ and various other instruments. [R.]

An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined.

Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined.

alloy or mixture which has the lowest melting point which it is possible to obtain by the combination of the given components.

activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

eing exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.

utting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment. Sir J. Herschel.

Combat; war. [Obs.] He made haste to exploit some warlike service. Holland.

The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate. -- Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved sur…

A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good…

orhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. Newcomb.

inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry. -- False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction. -- False galena. See Blende. -- False impriso…

ch the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul Are many lesser f…

Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.

Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

Honeycombed. See Faveolate.