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Quality of being sturdy.

The quality or state of being tardy.

A borer; the teredo.

A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.

Resembling the shell of a tortoise.

A weak nitrogenous sulphur base, C6H13NS2.

Quality of being thready.

The quality or state of being tidy.

meric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.

One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.

The quality or state of being unready.

A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.

A commercial name for green aniline dye.

of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.

The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.

The quality or state of being woody. Evelyn.

The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness. Jeffrey.

Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. They are called the amido xylenes.

acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.