Word Meanings - IODOCRESOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any of several isomeric iodine derivatives of the cresols, C6H3I OH, esp. one, an odorless amorphous powder, used in medicine as a substitute for iodoform.

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• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• 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
• POWDERED
  See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
• IODOFORMOGEN
  A light powder used as a substitute for iodoform. It is a compound of iodoform and albumin.
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• AMORPHOUS
  1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan. 2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized. 3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom
• ODORLESS
  Free from odor.
• POWDER-POSTED
  Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• IODINE
  A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• SEVERAL
  1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
• POWDERHORN
  A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
• SEVERALTY
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
• POWDERFLASK
  A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
• POWDERMILL
  A mill in which gunpowder is made.
• POWDERING
  a. & n. from Powder, v. t. Powdering tub. A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. Shak.
• MEDICINE
  A physician. Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man , a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of
• SEVERALIZE
  To distinguish.
• BEPOWDER
  To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
• GOA POWDER
  A bitter powder found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.
• ATLAS POWDER
  A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.
• PIEPOUDRE; PIEPOWDER
  An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.
• PARAMORPHOUS
  Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.
• SMOKELESS POWDER
  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
• JAMES'S POWDER
  Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.