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meric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.

A salt of phosphoric acid.

A salt of phosphorous acid.

osphoric acid, Insoluble phosphoric acid (Agric. Chem.), phosphoric acid combined in acid salts, or in neutral or basic salts, which are respectively soluble and insoluble in water or in plant juices. -- Reverted phosphoric acid (Agric. Chem.), phosphoric acid changed from acid (soluble) salts back to neutral or basic…

A salt of phthalic acid.

C6H4.(CO)2NH, which has itself (like succinimide) acid properties, and forms a series of salts. Cf. Imido acid, under Imido.

provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.

A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.

A salt of picric acid.

Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish.

The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. -- Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.…

memorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.

; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote. "As piquant to the tongue as salt." Addison. "Piquant railleries." Gov. of Tongue.

r throw with, or as with, a pitchfork. He has been pitchforked into the footguards. G. A. Sala.

ists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.

A meager portion, quality, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation. "The small pittance of learning they received." Swift. The inconsiderable pittance of faithful professors. Fuller.

To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.

All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic (#), a.

cuits and crackers, for mixing with cocoa, etc. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance.