Word Meanings - XANTHIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A compound or derivative of xanthogen.

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• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• XANTHOGENIC
  Producing a yellow color or compound; xanthic. See Xanthic acid, under Xanthic.
• XANTHOGENATE
  A salt of xanthic acid.
• 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
• XANTHOGEN
  The hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic of xanthic acid. Persulphocyanogen.
• COMPOUND
  In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.
• FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
  . See under Compound, v. t.
• DECOMPOUNDABLE
  Capable of being decompounded.
• 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."
• DECOMPOUND
  1. To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time. 2. To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose. It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts. Hazlitt.