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Pertaining to, or derived from, oxalic acid and aniline; -- used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by heating these substances together.

a white crystalline substance, resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; -- called also diphenyl oxamide.

Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to the full moon. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The full moon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived…

The tarpum. [Local, U.S.]

ding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle. Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller a…

The quality or state of being senile; old age.

The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. Coleridge.

One who talks in his sleep.

Apt to talk in sleep.

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [R.] Coleridge.

In a spoony manner.

The European starling. [Prov. Eng.]

In a stony manner.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an anilene sulphonic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Having one lip only; as, a unilabiate corolla.

Pertaining to one side; one-sided; as, a unilateral raceme, in which the flowers grow only on one side of a common axis, or are all turned to one side. Unilateral contract (Law), a contract or engagement requiring future action only by one party.