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A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants. [Obs.]

Infamous; dastardly. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.

A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.

See Dicyanide.

A carbide. [R.]

A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.

compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.

A selenide containing two atoms of selenium in each molecule.

A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.

One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base. Potassium ferricyanide (Chem.), red prussiate of potash; a dark, red, crystalline salt, K6(CN)12Fe2, consisting of the double cyanide of potassium and ferric iron. From it is derived the ferrous ferricyanate, Turnbull's blue.…

One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base. Potassium ferrocyanide (Chem.), yellow prussiate of potash; a tough, yellow, crystalline salt, K4(CN)6Fe, the starting point in the manufacture of almost all cyanogen compounds, and the basis of the ferric ferrocyanate, prussian blue. It is…

To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces. [Obs.]

A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.

A binary compound containing hydrogen; a hydride. [R.] See Hydride.

The ichneumon flies.

Any one of the derivatives of indogen, which contain that group as a nucleus.

A white amorphous or crystalline substance, obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.

See Mellone.