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A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet. [Written also gredaline, grizelin.] Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the islands called Hebrides, west of Scotland. -- n.

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

den producing the golden apples. It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides Shak.

A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride. [Obs.]

A compound of the binary type, in which hydrogen is united with some other element.

A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; -- distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceæ), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others.

The act or process of cutting out a portion of the iris in order to form an artificial pupil.

Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl.

olors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

An isomer. [R.]

A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it.

A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides. Perrier.

able into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.

Bromine; -- formerly so called from its being obtained from sea water.

A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.

To surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than. Shak.

One who rides out on horseback. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To surpass in striding.