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e of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.

One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice. While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. Dryden.

Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.

A substance, usually nitrogenous, which is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures.

That which is undergoing putrefaction; the products of putrefaction.

ck (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.

To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.] Waller.

To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.

of its faces at right angles shall emerge at right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized ray, or the reverse. Nichol.

To undergo the process of being roasted.

To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar s…

ved from a peroxide base or analogous compound. [Obs.] -- Permanent salt, a salt which undergoes no change on exposure to the air. -- Proto salt (Chem.), a salt derived from a protoxide base or analogous compound. -- Rochelle salt. See under Rochelle. -- Salt of amber (Old Chem.), succinic acid. -- Salt of colcotha…

ny fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.

those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. Sarcina form (Biol.),…

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.

A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot.

To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.

ne substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.