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A white crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caotchouc.

A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.

A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.

A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.

The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.

A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, et…

Any substance which tends to cause delirium.

The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.

A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i

An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance.

matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon.

I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances. Locke.

A substance used to deplete.