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Same as Germicide.

A white, crystalline substance,

Unreal; illusory. "A sort of Barmecidal feast." Hood.

One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal. "A Barmecide feast." Dickens.

ich can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.

An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope.…

A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.

The act of killing deer; deer-slaying. [R.]

One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididæ. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.

One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

wo equal triangles, when placed one on the other. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne.

The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley.

Coincidence. [R.]

Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.

Coincident.

With coincidence.

One who coincides with another in an opinion.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…

Like or pertaining to the Mosquito family (Culicidæ). -- n.