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resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.

A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also hydroxy-benzyl alcohol.

An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. Chaucer.

A white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of saponin.

ct, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.

nce (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.

A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. "Poignant sauce." Chaucer. High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. Sir S. Baker.

A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.

The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts. Moore (Encyc. of Music). In sco…

Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.

Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.

A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.

Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.

One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.

The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.

A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard. The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. Chapman.

Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.

Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.