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- English Word Pyrotic Definition A caustic medicine.
- English Word Pyrotritartaric Definition Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid.
- English Word Pyrotungstic Definition Polytungstic. See Metatungstic.
- English Word Pyrouric Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called cyanuric acid. See Cyanuric.
- English Word Pyrovanadic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of vanadium, analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
- English Word Pyroxanthin Definition A yellow crystalline hydrocardon extracted from crude wood spirit; -- called also eblanin.
- English Word Pyroxene Definition A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90¡, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc.
- English Word Pyroxenic Definition Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.
- English Word Pyroxenite Definition A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.
- English Word Pyroxylic Definition Derived from wood by distillation; -- formerly used in designating crude wood spirit.
- English Word Pyroxylin Definition A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; -- called also pyroxyle.
- English Word Pyrrhic Definition Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance.
- English Word Pyrrhic Definition Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.
- English Word Pyrrhic Definition An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick.
- English Word Pyrrhic Definition A foot consisting of two short syllables.
- English Word Pyrrhicist Definition One two danced the pyrrhic.
- English Word Pyrrhonean Definition Alt. of Pyrrhonic
- English Word Pyrrhonic Definition Of or pertaining to pyrrhonism.
- English Word Pyrrhonism Definition Skepticism; universal doubt.
- English Word Pyrrhonist Definition A follower of Pyrrho; a skeptic.