Word Meanings - HYDRA-TAINTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.

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• HYDRA
  A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules.
• HYDRAULICON
  An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• HYDRANT
  A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
• HYDRARGYRUM
  Quicksilver; mercury.
• HYDRAULICS
  That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like. Note: As a science,
• HYDRATED
  Formed into a hydrate; combined with water.
• HYDRATION
  The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate. Water of hydration , water chemically combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.
• HYDRASTINE
  An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal , and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.
• HYDRAULIC
  Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock. Hydraulic accumulator, an accumulator for hydraulic machinery of any kind. See Accumulator, 2. -- Hydraulic brake, a
• DIPPING
  1. The act or process of immersing. 2. The act of inclining downward. 3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like. 4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping
• HYDRACTINIAN
  Any species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.
• HYDRAMINE
  One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.
• HYDRARGOCHLORIDE
  A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.
• HYDRA-TAINTED
  Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.
• HYDRATE
  A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts. A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents so arranged that water may
• DEADLY
  1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound. 2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. Thy assailant is
• HYDRACRYLIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric variety of lastic acid that breaks down into acrylic acid and water.
• HYDRARTHROSIS
  An effusion of watery liquid into the cavity of a joint.
• HYDRAULICAL
  Hydraulic.
• UNDEADLY
  Not subject to death; immortal. -- Un*dead"li*ness, n. Wyclif.
• STERHYDRAULIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle. Sterhydraulic press, an hydraulic press producing pressure or motion by the introduction of a solid substance into a cylinder previously filled
• DEHYDRATION
  The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
• CARBOHYDRATE
  One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose,
• CRYOHYDRATE
  A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.
• SULPHYDRATE
  A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate, KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been
• DEHYDRATE
  To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.