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Whither. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A compound or derivative of xanthogen. [Archaic]

To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray.

s formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound. [R.] Berzelius.

Methyl phenyl ether, C6H5OCH3, got by distilling anisic acid or by the action of methide on potassium phenolate.

One of the aphides; an aphid.

Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead.

ce many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

A larva that feeds on aphides.

ark bed. See Bark stove (below). -- Bark pit, a pit filled with bark and water, in which hides are steeped in tanning. -- Bark stove (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

ine solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. Knight.

narch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

bout three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.