Word Meanings - NITROBENZENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.

• Essence
  The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
• Liquidated
  of Liquidate
• Mirbane
  See Nitrobenzene.
• Productible
  Capable of being produced; producible.
• Yellowfin
  A large squeteague.
• Bitterish
  Somewhat bitter.
• Yellowwort
  A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
• YELLOWEYED
  Having yellow eyes. Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), any plant of the genus Xyris.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Essenced
  of Essence
• Liquidating
  of Liquidate
• Productile
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• Yellowfish
  A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• Bitterling
  A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).
• ACTIONARYACTIONIST
  A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]
• YELLOWGOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.

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