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Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides. -- n.

e, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.

valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

ibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.

ges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.

A compound radical, C7H15, regarded as the essential radical of heptane and a related series of compounds.

A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.

ing to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.

A compound radical, C6H13, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds. See Isomorphism.

h units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc.

s family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short…

eas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen.

A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride. [Obs.]

A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.

ases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a ba…

A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.