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lye
(encz) | lye,louh n: Zdeněk Brož |
lye
(encz) | lye,loužit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Lye
(gcide) | Lye \Lye\, n.
A falsehood. [Obs.] See Lie.
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Lye
(gcide) | Lye \Lye\, n. [Written also lie and ley.] [AS. le['a]h; akin
to D. loog, OHG. louga, G. lauge; cf. Icel. laug a bath, a
hot spring.]
1. A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts,
obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making
soap, etc.
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2. (Chem.) Sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, or a
concentrated aqueous solution of either compound.
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Lye
(gcide) | Lye \Lye\, n. (Railroad)
A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out;
a siding. [Eng.]
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lye
(wn) | lye
n 1: a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide |
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flyer
(mass) | flyer
- leták, letec |
plyers
(mass) | plyers
- kombinačky |
polyester
(mass) | polyester
- polyester |
polyester
(msas) | polyester
- polyester |
polyester
(msasasci) | polyester
- polyester |
flyer
(encz) | flyer,cestující letadlem n: Petr Prášekflyer,leták n: Michal Ambrožflyer,letec n: Zdeněk Brož |
high-flyer
(encz) | high-flyer,ctižádostivec n: Zdeněk Brož |
highflyer
(encz) | highflyer,ctižádostivec n: Zdeněk Brož |
lye
(encz) | lye,louh n: Zdeněk Brožlye,loužit v: Zdeněk Brož |
lye hominy
(encz) | lye hominy, n: |
plyer
(encz) | plyer, n: |
plyers
(encz) | plyers, n: |
polyelectrolyte
(encz) | polyelectrolyte,polyelektrolyt n: Zdeněk Brož |
polyembryony
(encz) | polyembryony,polyembryonie [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
polyester
(encz) | polyester,polyester n: polyester,polyesterový adj: |
polyester fiber
(encz) | polyester fiber, n: |
polyestrous
(encz) | polyestrous, adj: |
polyethylene
(encz) | polyethylene,polyethylen n: [chem.] PE Ritchiepolyethylene,polyetylén n: Zdeněk Brož |
polyedróza
(czen) | polyedróza,polyhedrosisn: [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
polyelektrolyt
(czen) | polyelektrolyt,polyelectrolyten: Zdeněk Brož |
polyembryonie
(czen) | polyembryonie,polyembryony[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
polyester
(czen) | polyester,polyestern: |
polyesterový
(czen) | polyesterový,polyesteradj: |
polyethylen
(czen) | polyethylen,polyethylenen: [chem.] PE Ritchie |
polyetylén
(czen) | polyetylén,polyethylenen: Zdeněk Brož |
Bolye
(gcide) | Boley \Bo"ley\, Bolye \Bo"lye\, n.
Same as Booly.
[1913 Webster]Booly \Boo"ly\, n.; pl. Boolies. [Ir. buachail cowherd; bo cow
+ giolla boy.]
A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering
from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on
their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain
pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
[Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.]
--Spenser.
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bolye
(gcide) | Boley \Bo"ley\, Bolye \Bo"lye\, n.
Same as Booly.
[1913 Webster]Booly \Boo"ly\, n.; pl. Boolies. [Ir. buachail cowherd; bo cow
+ giolla boy.]
A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering
from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on
their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain
pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
[Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.]
--Spenser.
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Chamber lye
(gcide) | Chamber \Cham"ber\, n. [F. chambre, fr. L. camera vault, arched
roof, in LL. chamber, fr. Gr. ? anything with a vaulted roof
or arched covering; cf. Skr. kmar to be crooked. Cf.
Camber, Camera, Comrade.]
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1. A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a
bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
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2. pl. Apartments in a lodging house. "A bachelor's life in
chambers." --Thackeray.
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3. A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative
body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate
chamber.
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4. A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or
association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of
Commerce.
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5. A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as,
the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the
chamber of the eye.
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6. pl. (Law.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts
business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such
official business as may be done out of court.
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7. A chamber pot. [Colloq.]
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8. (Mil.)
(a) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which
holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from
the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made
smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in
breech-loading guns.
(b) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to
contain the powder.
(c) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on
its breech, without any carriage, formerly used
chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
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Air chamber. See Air chamber, in the Vocabulary.
Chamber of commerce, a board or association to protect the
interests of commerce, chosen from among the merchants and
traders of a city.
Chamber council, a secret council. --Shak.
Chamber counsel or Chamber counselor, a counselor who
gives his opinion in private, or at his chambers, but does
not advocate causes in court.
Chamber fellow, a chamber companion; a roommate; a chum.
Chamber hangings, tapestry or hangings for a chamber.
Chamber lye, urine. --Shak.
Chamber music, vocal or instrumental music adapted to
performance in a chamber or small apartment or audience
room, instead of a theater, concert hall, or church.
Chamber practice (Law.), the practice of counselors at law,
who give their opinions in private, but do not appear in
court.
To sit at chambers, to do business in chambers, as a judge.
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Flyer
(gcide) | Flyer \Fly"er\, n. [See Flier.]
1. One that uses wings.
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2. The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
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3. Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a
theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
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4. (Arch.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to
each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a
winder.
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5. The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning
frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so
called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
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6. The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the
wind veers. --Internat. Cyc.
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7. (Stock Jobbing) A small operation not involving ?
considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of
one's ordinary business; a venture. [Cant] --Bartlett.
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Forlye
(gcide) | Forlye \For*lye"\, v. i.
Same as Forlie. [Obs.]
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highflyer
(gcide) | highflyer \highflyer\ n.
Same as highflier.
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Lyencephala
(gcide) | Lyencephala \Ly`en*ceph"a*la\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? to loose +
? the brain.] (Zool.)
A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes;
-- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.
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Lyencephalous
(gcide) | Lyencephalous \Ly`en*ceph"a*lous\, a. (Zool.)
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.
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Lyerman
(gcide) | Lyerman \Ly"er*man\, n. (Zool.)
The cicada.
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Night flyer
(gcide) | Night \Night\ (n[imac]t), n. [OE. night, niht, AS. neaht, niht;
akin to D. nacht, OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n[=o]tt,
Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nahts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche,
W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, Gr. ny`x, nykto`s, Skr.
nakta, nakti. [root]265. Cf. Equinox, Nocturnal.]
1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the
horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the
time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the
sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. --Gen. i. 5.
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2. Hence:
(a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.
--Pope.
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(b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
(c) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night
of sorrow.
(d) The period after the close of life; death.
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She closed her eyes in everlasting night.
--Dryden.
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Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
--Dylan
Thomas.
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(e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems
to sleep. "Sad winter's night". --Spenser.
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Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the
formation of self-explaining compounds; as,
night-blooming, night-born, night-warbling, etc.
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Night by night, Night after night, nightly; many nights.
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So help me God, as I have watched the night,
Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.
--Shak.
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Night bird. (Zool.)
(a) The moor hen (Gallinula chloropus).
(b) The Manx shearwater (Puffinus Anglorum).
Night blindness. (Med.) See Hemeralopia.
Night cart, a cart used to remove the contents of privies
by night.
Night churr, (Zool.), the nightjar.
Night crow, a bird that cries in the night.
Night dog, a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by
poachers.
Night fire.
(a) Fire burning in the night.
(b) Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern.
Night flyer (Zool.), any creature that flies in the night,
as some birds and insects.
night glass, a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large
amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night.
--Totten.
Night green, iodine green.
Night hag, a witch supposed to wander in the night.
Night hawk (Zool.), an American bird ({Chordeiles
Virginianus}), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the
insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and
often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud
whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also
sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is
called also bull bat.
Night heron (Zool.), any one of several species of herons
of the genus Nycticorax, found in various parts of the
world. The best known species is Nycticorax griseus, or
Nycticorax nycticorax, of Europe, and the American
variety (var. naevius). The yellow-crowned night heron
(Nyctanassa violacea syn. Nycticorax violaceus)
inhabits the Southern States. Called also qua-bird, and
squawk.
Night house, a public house, or inn, which is open at
night.
Night key, a key for unfastening a night latch.
Night latch, a kind of latch for a door, which is operated
from the outside by a key.
Night monkey (Zool.), an owl monkey.
night moth (Zool.), any one of the noctuids.
Night parrot (Zool.), the kakapo.
Night piece, a painting representing some night scene, as a
moonlight effect, or the like.
Night rail, a loose robe, or garment, worn either as a
nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness.
[Obs.]
Night raven (Zool.), a bird of ill omen that cries in the
night; esp., the bittern.
Night rule.
(a) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a
corruption, of night revel. [Obs.]
(b) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at
night.
What night rule now about this haunted grove?
--Shak.
Night sight. (Med.) See Nyctolopia.
Night snap, a night thief. [Cant] --Beau. & Fl.
Night soil, human excrement; -- so called because in cities
it is collected by night and carried away for manure.
Night spell, a charm against accidents at night.
Night swallow (Zool.), the nightjar.
Night walk, a walk in the evening or night.
Night walker.
(a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a
noctambulist.
(b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes;
specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets.
Night walking.
(a) Walking in one's sleep; sleep walking; somnambulism;
noctambulism.
(b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs.
Night warbler (Zool.), the sedge warbler ({Acrocephalus
phragmitis}); -- called also night singer. [Prov. Eng.]
Night watch.
(a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change
of watch.
(b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night.
Night watcher, one who watches in the night; especially,
one who watches with evil designs.
Night witch. Same as Night hag, above.
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Plyer
(gcide) | Plyer \Ply"er\, n.
One who, or that which, plies; specifically:
(a) pl. A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a
drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of
a St. Andrew's cross.
(b) pl. See Pliers.
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Polyedron
(gcide) | Polyedron \Pol`y*e"dron\, n.
See Polyhedron.
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Polyedrous
(gcide) | Polyedrous \Pol`y*e"drous\, a.
See Polyhedral.
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Polyeidic
(gcide) | Polyeidic \Pol`y*ei"dic\, a. [Poly- + Gr. e'i^dos form.] (Zool.)
Passing through several distinct larval forms; -- having
several distinct kinds of young.
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Polyeidism
(gcide) | Polyeidism \Pol`y*ei"dism\, n. (Zool.)
The quality or state of being polyeidic.
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Polyembryonate
(gcide) | Polyembryonate \Pol`y*em"bry*o*nate\, a. [Poly- + embryonate.]
(Bot.)
Consisting of, or having, several embryos; polyembryonic.
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Polyembryonic
(gcide) | Polyembryonic \Pol`y*em`bry*on"ic\, a. [Poly- + embryonic.]
(Bot.)
Polyembryonate.
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Polyembryony
(gcide) | Polyembryony \Pol`y*em"bry*o*ny\, n. [See Poly-, and
Embryo.] (Bot.)
The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either
to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic
sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic
sac.
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Polyergus rufescens
(gcide) | Amazon \Am"a*zon\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
1. One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia;
hence, a female warrior.
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2. A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.
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3. (Zool.) A name numerous species of South American parrots
of the genus Chrysotis
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Amazon ant (Zool.), a species of ant ({Polyergus
rufescens}), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest
the larv[ae] and nymphs of other species and make slaves
of them in their own nests.
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polyethylene
(gcide) | macromolecule \mac`ro*mol"e*cule\, n. (Chem., Biochem.)
A very large molecule, especially a polymer having from
hundreds to many thousands of atoms, such as DNA, RNA,
protein, polysaccharide, polyethylene, polycarbonate,
etc.
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Replyer
(gcide) | Replyer \Re*ply"er\ (-?r), n.
See Replier. --Bacon.
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Slyer
(gcide) | Sly \Sly\, a. [Compar. Slieror Slyer; superl. Sliest or
Slyest.] [OE. sli, slegh, sleih, Icel. sl?gr, for sl?gr;
akin to Sw. slug, Dan. slu, LG. slou, G. schlau; probably to
E. slay, v.t.; cf. G. verschlagen sly. See Slay, v. t., and
cf. Sleight.]
1. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice;
nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good
sense.
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Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves. --Wyclif
(Matt. x. 16).
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Whom graver age
And long experience hath made wise and sly.
--Fairfax.
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2. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
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For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness,
The litle of the kingdom I possess. --Spenser.
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3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy;
subtle; as, a sly trick.
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Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. --I.
Watts.
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4. Light or delicate; slight; thin. [Obs.]
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By the sly, or On the sly, in a sly or secret manner.
[Colloq.] "Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly." --G.
Eliot.
Sly goose (Zool.), the common sheldrake; -- so named from
its craftiness.
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Syn: Cunning; crafty; subtile; wily. See Cunning.
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Slyest
(gcide) | Sly \Sly\, a. [Compar. Slieror Slyer; superl. Sliest or
Slyest.] [OE. sli, slegh, sleih, Icel. sl?gr, for sl?gr;
akin to Sw. slug, Dan. slu, LG. slou, G. schlau; probably to
E. slay, v.t.; cf. G. verschlagen sly. See Slay, v. t., and
cf. Sleight.]
1. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice;
nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good
sense.
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Be ye sly as serpents, and simple as doves. --Wyclif
(Matt. x. 16).
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Whom graver age
And long experience hath made wise and sly.
--Fairfax.
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2. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
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For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness,
The litle of the kingdom I possess. --Spenser.
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3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy;
subtle; as, a sly trick.
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Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. --I.
Watts.
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4. Light or delicate; slight; thin. [Obs.]
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By the sly, or On the sly, in a sly or secret manner.
[Colloq.] "Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly." --G.
Eliot.
Sly goose (Zool.), the common sheldrake; -- so named from
its craftiness.
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Syn: Cunning; crafty; subtile; wily. See Cunning.
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Soda lye
(gcide) | Soda \So"da\, n. [It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making
glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having
probably been a name of glasswort. See Solid.]
1. (Chem.)
(a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
(b) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate. Sodium
bicarbonate is also called baking soda
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2. same as sodium, used in terms such as {bicarbonate of
soda}.
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3. same as soda water.
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4. a non-alcoholic beverage, sweetened by various means,
containing flavoring and supersaturated with carbon
dioxide, so as to be effervescent when the container is
opened; -- in different localities it is variously called
also soda pop, pop, mineral water, and minerals.
It has many variants. The sweetening agent may be natural,
such as cane sugar or corn syrup, or artificial, such as
saccharin or aspartame. The flavoring varies widely,
popular variants being fruit or cola flavoring.
[PJC]
Caustic soda, sodium hydroxide.
Cooking soda, sodium bicarbonate. [Colloq.]
Sal soda. See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium.
Soda alum (Min.), a mineral consisting of the hydrous
sulphate of alumina and soda.
Soda ash, crude sodium carbonate; -- so called because
formerly obtained from the ashes of sea plants and certain
other plants, as saltwort (Salsola). See under Sodium.
Soda fountain, an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted
with delivery tube, faucets, etc.
Soda lye, a lye consisting essentially of a solution of
sodium hydroxide, used in soap making.
Soda niter. See Nitratine.
Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically,
sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts.
Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of
calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a
useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc
process of soda manufacture; -- called also {alkali
waste}.
Washing soda, sodium carbonate. [Colloq.]
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spulye
(gcide) | spulzie \spul"zie\ (sp[u^]l"z[i^] or sp[u^]l"y[i^]), n. [Cf.
Spoil.]
Plunder, or booty. [Written also spuilzie, and spulye.]
--Sir W. Scott.
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Volyer
(gcide) | Volyer \Vol"yer\, n. (Zool.)
A lurcher. [Prov. Eng.]
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flyer
(wn) | flyer
n 1: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a
leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the
circular to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill,
bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer,
throwaway]
2: someone who travels by air [syn: flier, flyer]
3: someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut,
airman, flier, flyer] |
genus polyergus
(wn) | genus Polyergus
n 1: Amazon ants [syn: Polyergus, genus Polyergus] |
highflyer
(wn) | highflyer
n 1: a person of great ability and ambition [syn: highflier,
highflyer] |
lye
(wn) | lye
n 1: a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide |
lye hominy
(wn) | lye hominy
n 1: hominy prepared by bleaching in lye |
plyer
(wn) | plyer
n 1: someone who plies a trade [syn: plier, plyer] |
plyers
(wn) | plyers
n 1: a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually)
serrated jaws [syn: pliers, pair of pliers, plyers] |
polyelectrolyte
(wn) | polyelectrolyte
n 1: an electrolyte of high molecular weight |
polyergus
(wn) | Polyergus
n 1: Amazon ants [syn: Polyergus, genus Polyergus] |
polyergus rufescens
(wn) | Polyergus rufescens
n 1: small reddish slave-making ant species [syn: Amazon ant,
Polyergus rufescens] |
polyester
(wn) | polyester
n 1: any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong
and weather resistant
2: a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics
or as a plasticizer
3: any of a large class of synthetic fabrics |
polyester fiber
(wn) | polyester fiber
n 1: a quick-drying resilient synthetic fiber consisting
primarily of polyester |
polyestrous
(wn) | polyestrous
adj 1: having more than one period of estrus per year [syn:
polyestrous, polyoestrous] |
polyethylene
(wn) | polyethylene
n 1: a lightweight thermoplastic; used especially in packaging
and insulation [syn: polyethylene, polythene] |
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