Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutaceae) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.
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A salt of rutic acid.
Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.
Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.
Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.
A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.
Full of ruth Pitiful; tender. Full of sorrow; woeful. Causing sorrow.
Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.
Having a reddish glow; shining.
To shine; to emit rays of light.
A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite.
Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata).
A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.
That which ruts.
An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt.
A chart of a course, esp. at sea.
Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.
A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle.
Rooty.
A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H18, of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially.
See Rial, an old English coin.
A clause added to a document; a rider. See Rider.
A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
A peasant or cultivator of the soil.
Eating, or subsisting on, filth.
A branch.
Rush, a plant.
See Rhysimeter.
A ford.
A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (Rytina Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow, stellerine and steller.
See Sadh.
Same as Bushmen.
A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.
Same as Sabian.
Same as Sabianism.
See Sabianism.
A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.
Armies; hosts.
In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.
The tenets of Sabbatarians.
A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.
Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest.
Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest.
A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
Same as Sabian.
Same as Sabianism.
A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.
A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.
The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Like, or related to, the genus Sabella.
An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.
The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry.
The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding.
See Savin.
To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
Scamped work. Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.
A kind of freezer for ices.
See Saber.
To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
The curlew.
A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt.
Growing in sandy places.
The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness.
Sandy; gritty.
See 2d Sack.
A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.
See Saker.
A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.
A salt of saccharic acid. In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.
Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.
Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.
To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.
A kind of muslin.
An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.
Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry.
The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.
A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).
A salt of saccharinic acid. A salt of saccharine.
A trade name for benzoic sulphinide.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.
To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.
Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.
A saccharimeter.
A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.
A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.
A salt of saccharonic acid.
A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid. An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.
Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.
Saccharine.
A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.
A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic.
Saccholactic.
A salt of sacchulmic acid.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid.
An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it.
Bearing a sac.
Having the general form of a sac.
Same as Pellibranchiata.
Like a sac; sacciform.
Furnished with little sacs.
A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.
Pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.
Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear.
A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
A sac.
An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity. A small monumental chapel in a church.
Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions.
The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
In a sacerdotal manner.
A small bag.
A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore.
The government or jurisdiction of a sachem.
Office or condition of a sachem.
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