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y under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disus…

The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage. Sir W. Scott.

The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. J. R. Green.

The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.

A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl.

A persulphocyanate. [Obs.]

A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. Methane series (Chem.), a series of saturated hydrocarbons, of which methane is the first member and type, and (because of their general chemical inertness and indifference) called also the paraffin (little affinity) series. The lig…

A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.

Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.

cine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.

Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl.

the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.

Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.

omic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether. Ethyl aldehyde. (Chem.) See Aldehyde.

is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane.

hem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series. -- Natural fats (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats ar…

derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology.