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One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base. Potassium ferricyanide , red prussiate of potash; a dark, red, crystalline salt, K6 12Fe2, consisting of the double cyanide of potassium and ferric iron. From it is
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One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base. Potassium ferricyanide , red prussiate of potash; a dark, red, crystalline salt, K6 12Fe2, consisting of the double cyanide of potassium and ferric iron. From it is derived the ferrous ferricyanate, Turnbull's blue.
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- DOUBLEGANGER
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley. - DOUBLE
Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - DOUBLE-SHADE
To double the natural darkness of . Milton. - DOUBLE-LOCK
To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - SERIES DYNAMO
A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others. - PRUSSIATE
A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide. Red prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferricyanide, under Ferricyanide. Yellow prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferrocyanide, under Ferrocyanide. - DOUBLE DEALER
One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - DOUBLEHEARTED
Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys. - DOUBLETHREADED
Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - POTASHES
Potash. - SERIES MOTOR
A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit. - COMPLEXIONALLY
Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke. - POTASSIUM
An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K . Note: It is reduced from the carbonate - DOUBLE-BARRELED; DOUBLE-BARRELLED
Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun. - DOUBLE-ACTING
Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump. - COMPLEXUS
A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - DICYANIDE
A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide. - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.