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derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid. Ellagic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C14H8O9, found in bezoar stones, and obtained by the oxidation of gallic acid.

te of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; -- also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals. -- Emerald Isle, a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure. -- Emerald spodumene, or Lithia emerald. (Min.) See Hiddenite. -- Emerald nickel. (Min.) See Zaratite.

A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

ally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.

person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.

The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.

wish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.

To rise upright. [Obs.] By wet, stalks do erect. Bacon.

A colorless crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various species of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.