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To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

nce or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence. It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure. Dana.

A salt of styphnic acid.

d, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.

A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.

or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate. [Obsoles.]

A salt of suberic acid.

Moderately saline or salt.

tro-positive bodies) in the proportion of two to three; as, a subsesqui acetate, i. e., a salt having two equivalents of acetic acid to three of the base.

A salt of succinamic acid.

tive of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts.

A salt of succinic acid.

ng succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido.

A salt of succinuric acid.

te crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts.

pound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.

A salt of sulphamic acid.

d (analogous to sulphonic acid) which is not known in the free state, but is known in its salts.

A salt of sulphantimonic acid.

A salt of sulphantimonious acid.