Word Meanings - OXAMIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and oxamide. Its ammonium salt is obtained by boiling oxamide with ammonia.
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- POWDERY
1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - POWDERED
See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey. - AMMONIATED
Combined or impregnated with ammonia. - OBTAINABLE
Capable of being obtained. - DESIGNATOR
An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates. - BOILED
Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes. - DESIGNATIVE
Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out. - BOILARY
See BOILERY - POWDER-POSTED
Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry. - CRYSTALLINE
1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - BOILING
Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena - POWDERHORN
A horn in which gunpowder is carried. - OXALIC
Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family. Oxalic acid , a dibasic acid, existing combined in oxalis - BOIL
a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. , Lith. bumbuls. 1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam , or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a - AMMONIUM
A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals. - POWDERFLASK
A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end. - OXAMIDE
A white crystalline neutral substance 2) obtained by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic acid. Formerly called also oxalamide. - BOILERY
A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making. - DESOXALIC
Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid. - OVERBOIL
To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron. - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - REOBTAINABLE
That may be reobtained. - 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. - BEPOWDER
To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder. - REOBTAIN
To obtain again. - IMBOIL
See EMBOIL - PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline. - NATAL BOIL
= Aleppo boil. - ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc. - GOA POWDER
A bitter powder found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained. - ATLAS POWDER
A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.