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Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.

One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.

An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.

The act or state of coming or falling between; occurrence; incident. [Obs.] Holland.

Falling or coming between; happening accidentally. [Obs.] Boyle.

A stonecutter. [Obs.]

The destruction of civil liberty.

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.

Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven. Lucid, like a glowworm. Sir I. Newton. A court compact of lucid marbles. Tennyson.

The quality or state of being lucid.

In a lucid manner.

The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

Pining; lean; withered. Dryden.

The state or quality of being withered or lean. [R.]

Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.

Of or pertaining to matricide.

The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

Having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid atom or radical; capable of neutralizing a monobasic acid; -- said of bases, and of certain metals.

An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.