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A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb.

An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

the same time; contemporary. The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. Milman - Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.

An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted crowtoe." Milton.

Pertaining to the Curculionideæ, or weevil tribe.

See Aurocyanide.

om its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, a…

A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.

A cyanide. [Obs.]

Of Egypt. Milton. The Deity, God, the Supreme Being. This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. Addison.

A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium.

A combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.

A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.

Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide. Ferricyanic acid (Chem.), a brown crystalline substance, H6(CN)12Fe2, obtained from potassium ferricyanide, and regarded as the type of the ferricyanides; -- called also hydro-ferricyanic acid, hydrogen ferricyanide, etc.

A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide. [R.]

A prefix, or combining form, indicating ferrous iron as an ingredient; as, ferrocyanide.

A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.