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formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.

A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin.

One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.

A body formed from bilirubin, identical with urobilin.

Identical. [Obs.] Hudibras.

The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system or doctrine of identity.

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. Sir W. Hamilton.

pice in India, and its oil is largely used in Europe for flavoring cordials, being almost identical with true oil of anise.

d by the oxidation of convolvulin (obtained from jalap, the tubers of Ipomoea purga), and identical in most of its properties with sebacic acid.

l-tar naphtha, as an oily liquid. It is a member of the quinoline series, and is probably identical with lepidine.

m.), the condition or relation of certain (metameric) substances, which, while chemically identical (in that they have the same composition, the same molecular weights, and the same ultimate constitution), are yet physically different, as in their action on polarized light, as dextro- and lævo-tartaric acids. In such c…

ents giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.

A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.

The albumin present on milk, apparently identical with ordinary serum albumin. It is distinct from the casein of milk.

A convulsive tic or hysteric neurosis prevalent among Malays, similar to or identical with miryachit and jumping disease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person.

A nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. Cf. Quinoline.

A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.

A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

he inflamed surfaces together. Lymph corpuscles (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lymph and chyle. -- Lymph duct (Anat.), a lymphatic. -- Lymph heart. See Note under Heart, n., 1.