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rless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc.

A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of hone, connective tissue, etc.

ly increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchæmia.

The formation of leucocytes.

White and black; -- said of a white animal of a black species, or the albino of the negro race.

An albino. [Also written leucoethiops.]

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

A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo.

An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.

The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents.

ish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also leucophanite.

A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.

Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.

A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green. Watts.

Having white or silvery foliage.

One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.

A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.

A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok.