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Ferrocyanic.

A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.…

See Nitroprussic.

Of or pertaining to Prussia. -- n.

A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide. Red prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferricyanide, under Ferricyanide. Yellow prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferrocyanide, under Ferrocyanide.

designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.

A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.

A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan. Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. Spenser.

The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. Weale.

To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress. [R.] Dryden.

One who untrussed persons for the purpose of flogging them; a public whipper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC…

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.

In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.

A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches.

ment. [Obs. or Archaic] This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. Evelyn.

A thick liquid residuum obtained in the distillation of Russian petroleum, much used as fuel.

Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin. -- n.