Word Meanings - THYMENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.

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• THYME
  Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus. The garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris) is a warm, pungent aromatic, much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups. Ankle deep in moss and flowery thyme. Cowper. Cat thyme, a labiate plant of the Mediterranean
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• LIQUIDIZE
  To render liquid.
• LIQUIDLY
  In a liquid manner; flowingly.
• LIQUIDATOR
  1. One who, or that which, liquidates. 2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. Mozley & W.
• THYMENE
  A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.
• LIQUIDAMBER
  See LIQUIDAMBAR
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• LIQUIDNESS
  The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.
• TERPENE
  Any one of a series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor, occurring especially in coniferous plants and represented by oil of turpentine, but including also certain hydrocarbons found in some essential oils.
• LIQUIDAMBAR
  A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star- shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor. 2. The balsamic juice which is obtained from
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• LIQUID AIR
  A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied oxygen and nitrogen. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cooling it by its own expansion to a temperature below the boiling point of
• LIQUID
  Being in such a state that the component parts move among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aëriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• LIQUIDATE
  To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of ; or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of ; to make the amount of ; clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever
• LIQUIDITY
  The state or quality of being liquid.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• ENTHYMEME
  An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• SEMILIQUIDITY
  The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.
• INTERPENETRATION
  The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Milman.
• PREOBTAIN
  To obtain beforehand.