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he methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

rless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.

halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo. The fire That haloed round his saintly brow. Sothey.

A line connecting places on the earth having the same mean winter temperature. Cf. Isothere.

The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects.

An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.

The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.

Minnesota; -- a nickname.

A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.

Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidæ, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or gre…

An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.

oups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and lime. Called also lime mesotype.

ct of the genus Panorpa. See Panorpid. -- Scorpion grass (Bot.), a plant of the genus Myosotis. M. palustris is the forget-me-not. -- Sorpion senna (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous shrub (Coronilla Emerus) having a slender joined pod, like a scorpion's tail. The leaves are said to yield a dye like indigo, and to…

See Sothic.

Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.

Hence, affected gravity or seriousness. Solemnity 's a cover for a sot. Young.

e nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3. A radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years.…

Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven. "A sotil [subtile] twine's thread." Chaucer. More subtile web Arachne can not spin. Spenser. I do distinguish plain Each subtile line of her immortal face. Sir J. Davies.

to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot. "Swinish gluttony." Milton. -- Swin"ish*ly, adv. -- Swin"ish*ness, n.

ose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section. [Written also symphysotomy.] Dunglison.