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Excessive acuteness of sight.

Pertaining to, or designating, the phenol formerly called oxyphenic acid, and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin. See Pyrocatechin.

A phenol, oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.

Acuteness or shrillness of voice.

Hydroxy quinoline; a phenol derivative of quinoline, -- called also carbostyril.

The maioid crabs.

A mixture of two parts of the oil of roses with one of the vinegar of roses. Floyer.

A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.

A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.

An oxysulphide. [Obsolescent]

An oxytocic medicine or agent.

One of three hydroxy derivatives of toluene, called the cresols. See Cresol.

Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.

Oxytone.

Braced aback.

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptoca…