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A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid compound of platinous cyanide and hydrocyanic acid. It is obtained as a cinnaber-red crystalline substance.

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

A cathode. [R.]

Resembling platinum.

A permanent photographic picture or print in platinum black.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a lower valence, as contrasted with the platinic compounds; as, platinous chloride (PtCl2).

alue between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric aci…

Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.

Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.

Scarlet fever. -- Scar`la*ti"nal, a. -- Scar*lat"i*nous (# or #), a.

Slates, collectively; also, material for slating.

Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.

Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.

falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground. -- Un"du*la`ting*ly. adv.

Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.

tter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not a…

A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A- (6).

A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.