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GREEN n. 14 definitions
r dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; - - called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green (below). -- Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment em…
GRIZZLY n. 3 definitions
In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.] Raymond.
GROUNDNUT n. 4 definitions
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
GUIDGUID n.
A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.
GUMMITE n.
A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.
GYMNITE n.
A hydrous silicate of magnesia.
GYMNOCHROA n.
A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See Hydra.
GYMNOPHTHALMATA n.
A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusæ; the hydromedusæ. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids.
GYPSUM n.
A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.
HAEMATIC a.
Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red. Hæmatic acid (Physiol.), a hypothetical acid, supposed to be formed from hemoglobin during its oxidation in the lungs, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum. Thudichum.
HAG n. 9 definitions
, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
HAIK n.
A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment. [Written also hyke.] Heyse.
HAMMERHEAD n. 3 definitions
A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygæna, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygæna is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
HARMOTOME n.
A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.
HATE v. 4 definitions
feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15.
HECDECANE n.
A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane.
HEMIN n.
ong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.
HENBANE n.
A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
HENDECANE n.
A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.
HEPATIC a. 3 definitions
common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive. -- Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas. -- Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.
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