paramide

[Pref. par-, and Eng. amide.] IMG:content-0644.png:[blocks in formation] ing of free-swimming animalcules, more or le flattened and asymmetrical, ciliate throughout; oral aperture on ventral surface. Genera, Parame- cium, Loxocephalus, Placus, and Concophthirus. ACID.] IMG:content-0645.png:[blocks in formation] Chem.: A name applied to starch-like granules present in Euglena virid is , a species of infusorium. Itis white, and not acted upon by water or dilute acids, but, on heating to 200°, is converted into a gummy ma . păr'-a-měs, subst . [Pref. para- , and Gr. mys =a mouse.] Palæont.: A genus of Sciuridae, from the Eocene Tertiary of North America. păr-a-năph'-tal-ese, s. [Pref. para- , and Eng. naphtalese .] [OXANTHRACENE.] păr-a-năph-tha-lene, subst . [Pref. para- , and Eng. naphthalene .] [ANTHRACENE.] păr-a-ne-ma ( pl . păr-a-ne-ma-ta), s. [Pref. para , and Gr.nēma yarn.] pa-răn-găn, s . [Fr.] [PARAGON.] A variety of black marble which the ancients obtained from Egypt and Greece. păr-ăn-I-çēne, subst . [Pref. para- , and Eng. nicene.] Chem.: C10H12 (?) Obtained by distilling chloro- niceic acid with caustic lime or baryta. Parani- cene is a solid substance, and is converted by fum- Chem.: C10H13N(?). A base formed by the action of sulphide of ammonium on nitroparanicene. It forms crystallizable salts, and is precipitated from its solutions in snowy flakes soluble in ether. păr-a-mou-drą, s. [The Irish name of the Geol.: A potstone (q. v.). păr'-a-mount, a. & s. [O. Fr. par amont =at the produced in the manufacture of aniline, and sep a- păr-ăn-1-line, s. [Pref. par- , and Eng. aniline .] Chem.: C12H14N2. A base polymeric with aniline, found among several bases of high boiling points, IMG:content-0646.png:[blocks in formation] rated by the fractional distillation of the residues left in the stills. After repeated crystallization it is obtained in long, white, silky needles, fusible at 192°, and boiling above the range of the mercury thermometer. It forms with acids highly crystal. line salts. păr-a-ni-tro-ben-zō'-Ic, adj . [Pref. para- , and Eng. nitro benzoic .] Derived from nitro benzoic acid. ankerites in which the proportion of the calcium- Min.: A name suggested by Boricky for all the magnesium carbonate to the calcium-iron carbonate is as two to one, or upward. "The fate of Guiteau served as a deterrent to the mur dero us instincts of cranks, and now the time has come to administer a curative for paranoia."-Chicago Inter Ocean, Feb. 25, 1894. păr-ă-noi-ặc, s. [Gr. paranoi ( a )=madne , and Eng. suff. -ac.] Path.: One affected with paranoia; in legal med i- IMG:content-0647.png:[blocks in formation] cine, a person laboring under some chronic delusion of such a nature as to induce in him an irresistible with neut. pl. suff. -ali a ; Gr. paraph ern a = that impulse to commit some particular act while under which a bride brings over and above her dower: its influence; a in the case of Guitean, who, if his para beside, beyond, and phernē = a dower; pherō claim be true, a a inated President Garfield while = to bring.] under the delusion that he was divinely inspired to 1. Law : Property which a bride po e es over "remove" him in order to save his political party from disruption; a crank. paraphimosis his will such ornaments and jewels of his wife; though during his life he has the power to sell them or give them away. But if she continues in the use of them till his death, she shall afterward retain them against his executors and administrators, and all other persons except creditors where there is a deficiency of a ets. And her nece ary apparel is protected even against the claim of creditors."- Black stone : Comment ., bk. ii., ch. 29. 2. Gen.: Appendages, ornaments, trappings, equipments, baggage, luggage. păr-a-phi-mo-sis, păr-a-phy-mō-sis, subst. (Pref, para-, and Eng., ., phimosis, phymosis ν.).1 Pathol .: Strangulation of the glans penis , owing to the opening of the prepuce being too small to allow it to be drawn behind the glans. ( Dunglison .) ar-a-phō-ni-a, s . [Gr. paraphōnia , from para beside, and phone =the voice.] păra 1. Ord . Lang .: An alteration of the voice. 2. Music : A melodic progre ion by the only consonances recognized in the Greek music, namely, fourths and fifths.