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Word Meanings - SCANDIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium.

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  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • EARTH FLAX
    A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • CHEMICAL
    A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.
  • EARTHSTAR
    A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
  • EARTHBRED
    Low; grovelling; vulgar.
  • EARTHBANK
    A bank or mound of earth.
  • EARTHQUAVE
    An earthquake.
  • EARTHDRAKE
    A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
  • EARTHNUT
    A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
  • EARTHEN
    Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
  • EARTH SHINE
    See EARTH
  • EARTHMAD
    The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
  • EARTHEN-HEARTED
    Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
  • EARTHBOARD
    The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
  • CHEMICALLY
    According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
  • EARTHWORK
    Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings,
  • EARTHLINESS
    The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
  • EARTHINESS
    The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
  • EARTH-TONGUE
    A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
  • UNEARTHLY
    Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
  • IATROCHEMICAL
    Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.
  • SESQUIOXIDE
    An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide.
  • CARBOXIDE
    A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.
  • PARADOXIDES
    A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
  • SUPEROXIDE
    See PEROXIDE
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • TETROXIDE
    An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO.
  • MICRO-CHEMICAL
    Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.

 

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