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A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid formerly supposed to be the acid of oenanthylic ether, but now known to be a mixture of higher acids, especially capric acid. [Obs.]

The coloring matter of red wines.

Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical.

Delirium tremens. Rayer.

Wine mixed with honey; mead, [R.]

See Alcoholometer.

A lover of wine. [R.] Thackeray.

Pertaining to an acid now called sulphovinic, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.

The C.G.S. unit of magnetic reluctance or resistance, equal to the reluctance of a centimeter cube of air (or vacuum) between parallel faces. Also, a reluctance in which unit magnetomotive force sets up unit flux.

Same as Esophagus, Esophageal, etc.

Of or pertaining to the gadflies. -- n.

Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.

The state of being under oestrual influence, or of having sexual desire.

genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvæ in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.

On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison.

Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin.

One of the Actinozoa.

See Alcoholometry.

The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.