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A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.

The aurochs.

A salt of uroxanic acid.

ting, an acid, C5H8N4O6, which is obtained, as a white crystalline substance, by the slow oxidation of uric acid in alkaline solution.

Same as Indican.

A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.

A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin.

and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.

A voice. Vox humana ( Etym: [L., human voice] (Mus.), a reed stop in an organ, made to imitate the human voice.

An organ stop of delicate stringlike quality, having for each finger key a pair of pipes, of which one is tuned slightly sharp to give a wavy effect to their joint tone.

The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning. Walton.

A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.

A box for holding instruments or materials for work.

imp. of Wax. Gower.

p. p. of Wax. Chaucer.

ydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted from the seeds of a Japanese prickly ash (Xanthoxylum pipertium) as an aromatic oil.

A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.

See Yex. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.