Definition of liquid

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Liquid (n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids..

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Pyridine :: Pyridine (n.) A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleus of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaines, may be mentioned. See Lutidine..
Sewage :: Sewage (n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewer.
Gush :: Gush (v. t.) A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird..
Zoutch :: Zoutch (v. t.) To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them..
Drown :: Drown (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
Octane :: Octane (n.) Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin..
Typhotoxin :: Typhotoxin (n.) A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta..
Water :: Water (v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water..
Gas :: Gas (n.) An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state..
Oleic :: Oleic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14/ C..
Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
Spout :: Spout (v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
Sextary :: Sextary (n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint..
Spatter :: Spatter (v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud..
Cooler :: Cooler (n.) Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc..
Wet :: Wet (v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth..
Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore..
Boil :: Boil (v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away..
Cryptidine :: Cryptidine (n.) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper..
Lupuline :: Lupuline (n.) An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid.
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