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Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts i…

A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid.

A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt.

Same as Salicylal.

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance called salicylous acid, and now salicylal. [Obs.]

Half cylindrical.

Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden.

Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes. "The spicy nut-brown ale." Milton. Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales. Pope.

A policy of term insurance.

A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy.

A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.

A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.

A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.

when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

ing satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

An obtaining; attainment. [Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

s; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.