Word Meanings - MANNIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A white amorphous or crystalline substance, obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.
Related words: (words related to MANNIDE)
- WHITECAP
The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - WHITESTER
A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - DISTINCTNESS
1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - WHITESIDE
The golden-eye. - SUBSTANCE
To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. - WHITE-EAR
The wheatear. - WHITEBLOW
See WHITLOW - DISTINCTURE
Distinctness. - DISTINCTIVENESS
State of being distinctive. - WHITEWING
The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck. - WHITEWALL
The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts. - WHITE MUSTARD
A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage. - WHITE-WATER
A dangerous disease of sheep. - OBTAINABLE
Capable of being obtained. - WHITETHROAT
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat . - DEHYDRATION
The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed. - WHITEBILL
The American coot. - CONTRADISTINCT
Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin. - HEPPELWHITE
Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co. - UNDISTINCTLY
Indistinctly. - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - RECONVERTIBLE
Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. - REOBTAINABLE
That may be reobtained. - INDISTINCTION
Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being - HYPOCRYSTALLINE
Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass. - MICROCRYSTALLINE
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline. - INCONVERTIBLE
Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.