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h urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.

A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.

The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.

Music for such a dance or having its slow triple time characteristic strong accent beginning every second measure.

Vegetal state or characteristic.

umerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.

The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.

of barbituric acid. It is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.

The qualities or characteristics of a virago.

Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell.

ard to germ plasm as the basis of heredity and the impossibility of transmitting acquired characteristics; -- often called neo-Darwinism.

The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner. J. R. Green.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working. O, how full of briers in this working-day world. Shak.

The hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic of xanthic acid. [Archaic]

The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.

Any one of three metameric radicals which are characteristic respectively of the three xylenes.

Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees. The alertness of the Yankee aspect. Hawthorne. Yankee clover. (Bot.) See Japan clover, under Japan.

A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc.