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101 words match “NIDE”

PAPILIONIDES n.

The typical butterflies.

PLATINOCYANIDE n.

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent. Dunglison.

SCORPIONIDEA n.

Same as Scorpiones.

A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.

Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods. [Slang]

SNIDER RIFLE; SNIDER n.

A breech-loading rifle formerly used in the British service; -- so called from the inventor.

A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and fo…

A binary compound of sulphion, or one so regarded; thus, sulphuric acid, Hsulphionide.

SULPHOCYANIDE n.

See Sulphocyanate.

TENTHREDINIDES n.

A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

Having no ideas; senseless; frivolous. "Unideaed girls." Mrs. Hemans. He [Bacon] received the unideaed page [Villiers] into his intimacy. Lord Campbell.

UNIDEAL a. 2 definitions

Unideaed. [R.] Johnson.

the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound. [R.] Berzelius.

Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.

BARREL PROCESS n.

or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

nds of ironware. Ure. -- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. -- Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitat…

A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.