Word Meanings - PYROGALLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A salt of pyrogallic acid; an ether of pyrogallol.

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• ETHERIFORM
  Having the form of ether.
• ETHERIN
  A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• ETHERIZATION
  The administration of ether to produce insensibility. The state of the system under the influence of ether.
• PYROGALLIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid called pyrogallol. See Pyrogallol.
• ETHEREAL
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It
• ETHEREALIZE
  1. To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether. 2. To render ethereal or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.
• ETHEREALIZATION
  An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.
• PYROGALLOL
  A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer
• ETHERIZE
  1. To convert into ether. 2. To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.
• ETHEREALNESS
  Ethereality.
• ETHER
  A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether. 2. Supposed matter above the
• ETHERIFICATION
  The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.
• ETHEREALISM
  Ethereality.
• ETHEROL
  An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.
• ETHEREOUS
  Pertaining to, or resembling, either. Ethereous oil. See Ethereal oil, under Ethereal. (more info) 1. Formed of ether; ethereal. This ethereous mold whereon we stand. Milton.
• AETHER
  See ETHER
• TELETHERMOGRAPH
  A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station. An instrument, usually electrical, making such records.
• NETHER
  Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth
• NETHERMOST
  Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss. Milton.
• TETHER-BALL
  A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other.
• SEETHER
  A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.
• ALTOGETHER
  1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.
• NETHERMORE
  Lower, nether. Holland.
• WHETHERING
  The retention of the afterbirth in cows. Gardner.