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An amide containing three amido groups.

See under Cyanuric.

Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

The quality or state of being tumid.

The acid amide derivative of valeric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

An amido derivative of xanthic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, C2H5O.CS.NH2; -- called also xanthogen amide.

An acid amide derivative of xylic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

irst letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from th…

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

In bed, or on the bed. Not to be abed after midnight. Shak.

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

A midwife. [Recent] Dunglison.

To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.

A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.…

A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. "In the very midst of the affray." Motley.

to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

says, "The vail of the temple was to rent:" and of Judas, "He was hanged and to-burst the middle:" i. e., burst in two, or asunder. -- All along. See under Along. -- All and some, individually and collectively, one and all. [Obs.] "Displeased all and some." Fairfax. -- All but. (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] Shak. (…

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

r obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]