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nce called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen. Ethylene series (Chem.), the series if unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is the type, and represented by the general formula CnH2n.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, ethyl; as, ethylic alcohol.

An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.

Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.

Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid. Ethylsulphuric acid (Chem.), an acid sulphate of ethyl, H.C2H5.SO4, produced as a thick liquid by the action of sulphiric acid on alcohol. It appears to be the active catalytic agent in the process of etherification.

Right feeling. [R.] Harris.

A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.

lth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11.

Therefore. [Obs.] Spenser.

Woody. [Obs.] Skelton.

Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant. His mind was now in a firm and healthy state. Macaulay.

Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.

orbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

ractice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or…

Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.

Like, or pertaining to, fishes.

Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.