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A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.

The ketone of propionic acid, obtained as a colorless fragrant liquid.

To propose; to bring forward.

One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition. Dryden.

The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.

One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

division of insects (Zoöl.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some zoölogists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera.

Of or pertaining to the Pseudoneuroptera.

An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.

Same as Pumice.

A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.

An unsaturated cyclic compound, C5H4O2, of which two varieties are known, a and g. g-pyrone is the parent substance of several natural yellow dyestuffs.

A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.

Of or pertaining to pyrrhonism.

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson.

26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid. [Written also quindekone.]

A green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone. [Written also chinhydrone.]

A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. [Written also chinone, kinone.]

A very lean animal, esp. a horse. [Colloq. U. S.]