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asting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]

A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

sis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.

A cake yeast made by filtering the cells from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour.

To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to Ant: dilute. Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength. Arbuthnot.…

The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation. The acid acquires a higher degree of concentration. Knight.

Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state. [Obs.] They formed a . . . fixed concrescible oil. Fourcroy (Trans. ).

oncrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet.

e or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.

o reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation. -- Condensing engine, a steam engine in wh…

An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.

Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.

A liquid measure containing about three quarts.

A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes. Liquids are generally heated by convection -- when heat is applied from bellow. Nichol.

n cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.

Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

A more or less viscid, vellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]…

A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]