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Abnormally regular or symmetrical. Darwin.

A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.

Same as Peptohydrochloric.

Designating a hypothetical acid (called peptohydrochloric acid, pepsinhydrochloric acid, and chloropeptic acid) which is supposed to be formed when pepsin and dilute (0.1-0.4 per cent) hydrochloric acid are mixed together.

Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.

A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.

racted from the root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, plum, etc. [Formerly also written phloridzin.]

To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid consisting of platinous chloride and hydrochloric acid, called platinochloric, or chloroplatinous, acid.

A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.

A chloride containing more than one atom of chlorine in the molecule.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.

Springing from vainglory or vanity; vain; boastful. Dryden.

The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.

A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.

To deprive of glory. [R.] I. Watts.

Inglorious. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful. "Arrogant and vainglorious expression." Sir M. Hale. -- Vain`glo"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Vain`glo"ri*ous*ness, n.

Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil.