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- English Word Etheostomoid Definition Pertaining to, or like, the genus Etheostoma.
- English Word Etheostomoid Definition Any fish of the genus Etheostoma and related genera, allied to the perches; -- also called darter. The etheostomoids are small and often bright-colored fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of North America. About seventy species are known. See Darter.
- English Word Ether Definition A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
- English Word Ether Definition Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
- English Word Ether Definition A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
- English Word Ether Definition Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
- English Word Ethereal Definition Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
- English Word Ethereal Definition Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
- English Word Ethereal Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.
- English Word Etherealism Definition Ethereality.
- English Word Ethereality Definition The state of being ethereal; etherealness.
- English Word Etherealization Definition An ethereal or spiritlike state.
- English Word Etherealize Definition To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.
- English Word Etherealize Definition To render ethereal or spiritlike.
- English Word Ethereally Definition In an ethereal manner.
- English Word Etherealness Definition Ethereality.
- English Word Ethereous Definition Formed of ether; ethereal.
- English Word Ethereous Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, ether.
- English Word Etherification Definition The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.
- English Word Etheriform Definition Having the form of ether.
- English Word Etherin Definition A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.
- English Word Etherization Definition The administration of ether to produce insensibility.
- English Word Etherization Definition The state of the system under the influence of ether.
- English Word Etherize Definition To convert into ether.
- English Word Etherize Definition To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.
- English Word Etherized Definition of Etherize
- English Word Etherizing Definition of Etherize
- English Word Etherol Definition An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.
- English Word Ethic Definition Alt. of Ethical
- English Word Ethical Definition Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.