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acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.

A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europæum.

A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning. [Obs.] Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Shak.

A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.

A college gown That clad her like an April Daffodilly. Tennyson And chance-sown daffodil. Whittier.

ll tree (Ilex cassine) of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.

positæ. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.

dog (Zoöl.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.

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.