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A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.…

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. Thomson.

To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams.

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

e; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century.

by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott.…

ny alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

n replaced by an acid atom or radical. Acid amide, a neutral compound formed by the substitution of the amido group for hydroxyl in an acid.

orgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

tric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposit…

A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.

Destitute of stamen

Destitute of anthers. Gray.

Destitute of flowers; flowerless.