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and in many plant tissues as the calcium oxalate. It is prepared on a large scale, by the action of fused caustic soda or potash on sawdust, as a white crystalline substance, which has a strong acid taste, and is poisonous in large doses. It is used in dyeing, calico printing, bleaching flax and straw, the preparation…

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.

To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent. Specifically:

One of a series of isonitroso derivatives obtained by the action of hydroxylamine on aldehydes or ketones.

The act or process of producing, or of subjecting to the action of, ozone.

use. Palace car. See under Car. -- Palace court, a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.

To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

imist. [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone. Tylor.

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. The returning paroxysms of diffidence and despair. South.

number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles'feet. Acts v. 2. Our ideas of extension and number -- do they not contain a secret relation…

A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. Win the noble Brutus to our party. Shak. The peace both parties want is like to last. Dryden.…

dvance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.

The conduct and passage of affairs. Sir J. Davies. The passage and whole carriage of this action. Shak.

ed upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action. A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set is motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it. Locke.

acterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the action of heat, of strong n…

ng submission. To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause. J. Edwards.

assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic. A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life. Rambler.