Search the Dictionary

Erythrolein.

A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium. [R.]

A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).

The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.

A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar.

Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

A red coloring matter found in algæ of the subclass Florideæ.

A coloring matter found in many simple Anthozoa and some hydroids.

See Prithee.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.

A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.

A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.

Writhen.

A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

The rythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.