Word Meanings - HORDEIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.

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• DERIVE
  To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. Syn. -- To trace; deduce; infer. (more info) 1. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute
• BARLEY-BREE
  Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
• ISOMERIC
  Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same
• LAURIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel . Lauric acid , a white, crystalline substance, C12H24O2, resembling palmitic acid, and obtained from the fruit of the bay tree, and other sources.
• IDENTICAL
  1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then
• BARLEYCORN
  1. A grain or "corn" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• 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
• IDENTICALLY
  In an identical manner; with respect to identity. "Identically the same." Bp. Warburton. "Identically different." Ross.
• DERIVEMENT
  That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
• HORDEIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.
• DERIVER
  One who derives.
• BARLEY
  A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird , the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction
• BARLEYBRAKE; BARLEYBREAK
  An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
• DERIVATE
  Derived; derivative. H. Taylor. -- n.
• IDENTICALNESS
  The quality or state of being identical; sameness.
• DERIVAL
  Derivation. The derival of e from a. Earle.
• DERIVABLE
  That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. All honor derivable upon me. South.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• SUBDERIVATIVE
  A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, "friendliness" is a subderivative, being derived from "friendly", which is in turn a derivative from "friend."