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The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.

rby Day, the day of the annual race for the Derby stakes, -- Wednesday of the week before Whitsuntide.

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 devising. Whitney.

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.

, of small wares; as, to make a dicker. [U.S.] For peddling dicker, not for honest sales. Whittier.

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.

Direction; guide. [R.] Whitlock.

asty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser.

A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

i*na`ting*ly, adv. And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white. Canning.

To deprive of house or home. "Dishoused villagers." James White.

That which excites distaste or aversion. [Obs.] Whitlock.

A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.

Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).