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Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids.

as, regarded as the limit above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid.

A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.

measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.

One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.

A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.

The coagulated part of any liquid.

is breast. Shak. Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. Pope.

A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.

A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.

A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.

A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.

To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies. In very moist air crystals of strontites deliquesce. Black.

by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.

To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce. Fourcroy.