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Orchidaceous.

Same as Orchidaceous.

A measure of land. See 3d Hide.

A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.

A sulphide containing more sulphur than some other compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; -- formerly called persulphuret.

A binary compound of phosphorus.

A sulphide having more than one atom of sulphur in the molecule; -- contrasted with monosulphide.

That one of a series of sulphides of any element which has the lowest proportion of sulphur; a sulphide with but one atom of sulphur in the molecule.

See Rhaphides.

A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.

nsparent, often needlle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants. [Written also raphides.]

A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.

A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter. [Prov. Eng.]

A nonacid compound consisting of one equivalent of sulphur and more than one equivalent of some other body, as a metal.

binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret. Double sulphide (Chem.), a compound of two sulphides. -- Hydrogen sulphide. (Chem.) See under Hydrogen. -- Metallic sulphide, a binary compound of sulphur with a metal.

A trisulphide.

Thither. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Thitherward. [Obs.]

A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur.

To bring out from concealment; to discover. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.