Word Meanings - XYLIDINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, 2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene.

Additional info about word: XYLIDINE

Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, 2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. They are called the amido xylenes. Note: The xylidine of commerce, used in making certain dyes, consists chiefly of the derivatives of paraxylene and metaxylene.

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• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• DERIVE
  To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• THREE-PLY
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• THREE-PARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• THREEPENNY
  Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
• THREEFOLD
  Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• THREE-LOBED
  Having three lobes. Three-lobed leaf , a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• 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
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• MAUVANILINE
  See MAUVE
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.