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An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. "The horny . . . coat of the eye." Ray.

A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.

Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.

Having color; -- usually in composition; as, bright-hued; many- hued. Chaucer.

A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.

A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.

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

A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.

s bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a…

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

A compound of hydriodic acid with a base; -- distinguished from an iodide, in which only the iodine combines with the base.

Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid. Hydrobromic acid (Chem.), a colorless, pungent, corrosive gas, HBr, usually collected as a solution in water. It resembles hydrochloric acid, but is weaker and less stable. Called also hydrogen bromide.

A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.

A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.

Pertaining to, or compounded of, chlorine and hydrogen gas; as, hydrochloric acid; chlorhydric. Hydrochloric acid (Chem.), hydrogen chloride; a colorless, corrosive gas, HCl, of pungent, suffocating odor. It is made in great quantities in the soda process, by the action of sulphuric acid on common salt. It has a great…

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

A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.