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

A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

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

A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).

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

A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.

genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.

To whiten. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Act of bleaching; a whitening. [Obs.]

nt wrap me up awhile. Shak. His dearest wish was to escape from the bustle and glitter of Whitehall. Macaulay.

To deprive of color; to whiten. Turner. -- De*col`or*i*za"tion, n.

A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

bout. [Obs.] I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White.

A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.

A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and ac…

rtemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

o subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.

A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.