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mmon salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.

The green sickness; an anæmic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.

the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chr…

this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds. Chromous acid, a bluish gray powder, CrO.OH, of weak acid properties and regard as an acid.

A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

p occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.

called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemiphere of the brain of man. -- Claus"tral, a.

A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. Gray. Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.…

A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem. Gray.

mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

Same as Collar. Gray.

olor than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray.

Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed. Gray.

deep to utter woe. Milton. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. Gray. And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith.

issue of a pistil. The ovarian walls . . . are seen to be distinctly conductive. Goodale (Gray's Bot. ).

Crowded together. Gray.