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An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory.

Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

gent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.

A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed.

Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic.

Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances.

A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.

A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.

A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.

ants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.

a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

dite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.

To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

A design carried out by means of the above process; a pattern on metal, glass, etc., produced by etching.

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.

l and sulphuric acid. Ethylsulphuric acid (Chem.), an acid sulphate of ethyl, H.C2H5.SO4, produced as a thick liquid by the action of sulphiric acid on alcohol. It appears to be the active catalytic agent in the process of etherification.

Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease. Dunglison.

untries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce.