ricinoleic ether

[RICIN OLEATE OF ETHYL.] riç-in-ō-le-In, s. [Lat.ricin ( us ) = the castor oil plant, and ole ( um )=oil; -in. ] Chem. The characteristic salt of castor oil. riç-in-ō'-lic, a. [RICINOLEIC.] ri-çin-u-la, s. [Dimin. from Mod. Lat. ricinus (q.v.).] Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of Buccinidae, with a thick tuberculated or spiny shell with callous projections on the lips. Recent species thirty-four, from Southern Asia and the Pacific. Fo il three, from the Miocene of France. riç'-in-ŭs, s. [Lat.=(1) a tick, (2) Ricinus com munis, the fruit of which was supposed to resemble a tick.] Bot.: A genus of Crotonese. Trees, shrubs, or herbs, having their leaves alternate, stipulate, palmate, with glands at the apex of the petiole; flowers in terminal panicles, calyx three to four parted, petals none, stamens many, polyadelphous; stigmas three, bipartite, feathery; fruit capsular, tri coccous. Ricinus communis , the Common Castor Oil plant, or Palma christ i , is a large shrub or small tree, indigenous in Arabia and North Africa (and India?). It is largely cultivated all over the warmer countries. In Europe it becomes an annual. Fifteen or sixteen varieties of the plant have arisen. Prof. Watt ( Calcutta Exhib . Rep ., iv. 60) reduces them to three sections: (1) Small-seeded, (2) large-seeded, (3) a form grown, on account of its leaves, as food for the Eria silkworm. The small-seeded form is grown as a crop, the large seeded one as a hedge. The seeds furnish castor oil, and are also used by dyers to render colors permanent. Persons camping near a field of the plant are apt to be attacked with diarrhea. The fresh juice is used as an emetic; made into a poultice with barley-meal it is used in inflammation of the eye. The leaves as a decoction, or as a poultice, are lactagogues and emmenagogues. Ricini oleum is Castor oil (q. v.). rick, *reek, *reke, s. [A. S. hréac; cogn. with Icel.hraukr; O. Sw. ruka , ruga .] 1. A pile or stack of grain or hay regularly heaped up, and generally thatched to preserve it from wet. 2. A small heap of grain or hay piled up by the gatherer. *3. A heap, generally. "So many hils to heap upon a rick ." Sylvester: Magnificence, 1,147. rick-cloth, subst . A tarpaulin or canvas cloth placed over ricks to protect them from wet.