Word Meanings - IODOQUININE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance,. It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite.

Related words: (words related to IODOQUININE)

• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• IODIDE
  A binary compound of iodine, or one which may be regarded as binary; as, potassium iodide.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• BROWN THRUSH
  A common American singing bird , allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• BROWNIST
  A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
• BROWNISH
  Somewhat brown.
• BROWN
  1. To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow. 2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. 3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels,
• HERAPATHITE
  The sulphate of iodoquinine, a substance crystallizing in thin plates remarkable for their effects in polarizing light.
• BROWNSTONE
  A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
• BROWN BILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• BROWN RACE
  The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• BROWNING
  A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster. (more info) 1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
• BINIODIDE
  See DIIODIDE
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• IODOQUININE
  A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance,. It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• HYDRIODIDE
  A compound of hydriodic acid with a base; -- distinguished from an iodide, in which only the iodine combines with the base.
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.
• BROWNISM
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
• PERIODIDE
  An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.