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mineral occurring on minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.

Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.

etmeat; any delicate food. How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton. Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. Chapman.

s justification. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Shak.

Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.

Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists.

Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.

Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy. Art thou good at these kickshawses! Shak.

Fantastic; restless; as, kicksy-wicksy flames. Nares.

Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.

tural; native. [Obs.] Chaucer. It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste. Holland.

t hath my duty strongly knit. Shak. Come , knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. Milton. A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each. Tennyson.

A tassel. [Obs.] Huloet. Fuller.

cid (Physiol. Chem.), a sirupy, colorless fluid, soluble in water, with an intensely sour taste and strong acid reaction. There are at least three isomeric modifications all having the formula C3H6O3. Sarcolactic or paralactic acid occurs chiefly in dead muscle tissue, while ordinary lactic acid results from fermentati…

, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin.

A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium.

A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium.

an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste. Balfour.

A fall or apostasy.