glycol (glikol)

[ glycerol contains three hydroxyl groups united to three carbon atoms, as C3H5(OH)3. Ethyl glycol is a liquid, inodorous, of a sweetish taste, and miscible with water and alcohol. glycolic (gli-kol'ik), a. [ II. n. [L. c.] In anc . pros ., a meter consisting in a series similar to a trochaic tetrapody catait by the substitution of a dactyl for the second lectic(ハ(一ト(|(|), but differing from trochee; by an extension of meaning, any log aœdic tetrapody, catalectic or acatalectic, in which three of the feet are trochees and one is a dactyl. A glyconic is called by recent metricians a first, second, or third glyconic, according as the dactyl is in the first, second, or third place. Glyconics seem to have been first used by Alcman (about 660 B. C.), and are frequent in Alcæus and Sappho. Nothing certain is known of the poot Glycon from whom this meter takes its name. glyconin (glikō-nin), n. [ glycose, glycoside, etc. See glucose, etc. glycymerid (gli-sim'e-rid), n. A member of the Glycymerida. Glycymeridæ (glis-i-mer'i-dē), n. pl. [NL. (De shayes, 1839), of siphonate bivalve mollusks, consisting of the genera Glycymeris, Panopœa, and Pholadomya: same as Saxicavida. Also Glycimerida, Glyci merides.