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Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.

See Chloridate.

About, or near, the meridian.

Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.

al tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [Eng.]

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at. And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. Luke xvi. 14. Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both his sides. Milton.

One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.

By way of derision or mockery.

Same as Bichloride.

A court day.

A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.

A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.

A game played with it. [Written also jereed, jerrid, etc.]

A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

Handbook; a manual of devotions. Evelyn.

To form into ridges. Shak.

A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.