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Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties. Epicycloidal wheel, a device for producing straight-line motion from circular motion, on the principle that a pin fastened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter…

A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.

Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide. Ferricyanic acid (Chem.), a brown crystalline substance, H6(CN)12Fe2, obtained from potassium ferricyanide, and regarded as the type of the ferricyanides; -- called also hydro-ferricyanic acid, hydrogen ferricyanide, etc.

of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base. Potassium ferricyanide (Chem.), red prussiate of potash; a dark, red, crystalline salt, K6(CN)12Fe2, consisting of the double cyanide of potassium and ferric iron. From it is derived the ferrous ferricyanate, Turnbull's blue.…

The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.

micircular arena, or room, or part of a room. The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion. London Academy.

ng to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen; as, hydroferricyanic acid. See Ferricyanic.

The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.

A bounding with juice; succulent. Bacon.

Wrong policy; impolicy.

A hypothetical radical regarded as the essential residue of myricin; -- called also melissyl.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitro derivative of salicylic acid, called also anilic acid.

Obstetrics. [R.] Dunglison.

The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

Inflammation of the tissues surrounding the bladder.

isdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him. Fuller.

A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear.

The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.

btained by oxidation of saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also salycylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous, or spiroylous, acid.

A salt of salicylic acid.