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To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.

To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.

posable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.

An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.

ries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees. Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. -- Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in wh…

The cultivation of orchards.

One who cultivates an orchard.

To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh.

Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed, establishment, or (in a manufacturing business) a…

A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England. Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings. Shak.

The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard. Red-crested poachard (Zoöl.), an Old World duck (Branta rufina). -- Scaup poachard, the scaup duck. -- Tufted poachard, a scaup duck (Aythya, or Fuligula cristata), native of Europe and Asia.

See Poachard.

To charge or accuse in return.

A second charter; a renewal of a charter. D. Webster.

A salt of saccharic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.

Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.

Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

A kind of muslin.

An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [Written also saccharometer.]