Search the Dictionary

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.

That which lubricates; specifically, a substance, as oil, grease, plumbago, etc., used for reducing the friction of the working parts of machinery.

A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco.

A luminous statement." Brougham. Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.

in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance.

species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, L. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance.

A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.

Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.

An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. Ure.

A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.

A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium. Magnesia alba Etym: [L.] (Med. Chem.), a bulky white amorphous substance…

A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.