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Word Meanings - URETHANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate. It is used somewhat in medicine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.

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  • 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.
  • ETHYLIN
    Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.
  • WHITESTER
    A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
  • PRODUCIBILITY
    The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • WHITESIDE
    The golden-eye.
  • SUBSTANCE
    To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
  • PROPER
    Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
  • WHITE-EAR
    The wheatear.
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • AMMONIATED
    Combined or impregnated with ammonia.
  • 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.
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • HYPNOTIC
    1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
  • HEPPELWHITE
    Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • REACTIONIST
    A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • SEMICRYSTALLINE
    Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
  • IMPROPERLY
    In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
  • MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
    The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.

 

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