picrotoxique

a. picrotoxic. piéce, f. piece; part; room; cask, barrel (as of wine); document, paper; apiece, each; head (as of cattle); tip, gratuity; (MMetal.) bloom; (Mach.) work. mettre en pieces, break, tear, cut, etc., in pieces. pierre piéce 4 —, bit by bit, piecemeal. — de coulée, casting. — de frottement, friction piece. — de rechange, spare part. — maitre e, in salt gardens, an elevated reservoir from which the brine is distributed to the tables salantes. — moulée, (Metal.) casting. pied, m. foot; base, support; leg (as of a table); stem, stalk; slope, inclination; footing; footprint; foot rule. a —, on foot. au — de la lettre, in a literal sense, literally; to the letter, exactly. de — fer me, firmly, resolutely. a couli e, slide caliper. a —, step by step. de beuf, neat’s foot. de chat, cat’s paw, cat’s foot; (Bot.) cudweed (Gnaphalium). — de cuve, sediment, dregs, foot; (Alcohol) fermenting liquid placed in the bottom of a vat which is then filled with unfermented liquid. sur —, on foot; up; well; in use, in fashion; (of crops) standing; (of soldiers) ready. pied-d’alouette, m. (Bot.) larkspur, delphinjum, pied-de-chévre, m. crowbar. pied-de-corneille, m. (Bot.) spotted crane’sbill. piédestal, m. pedestal. piége, m. trap, snare. pie-mére, f. (Anat.) pia mater. pierraille, /. broken stone, pieces (or piece) of stone, rubble. pierre, /. stone; hard ma (as of mercuric sulfide); (Med.) calculus. — d a i guiser, whetstone; grindstone. — a bdtir, building stone. — da brunir, burnishing stone, spec if. hematite. — a cautére, (Med.) chemical caustic, potential cautery, spec if. pota ium hydroxide. — a chauz, limestone. a ciment, cement stone, cement rock. a feu, firestone. a filtrer, filter stone, filtering stone. a laver, sink. a Uhutle, oilstone. ad meules, millstone; grindstone. ad paver, paving stone. a platre, gypsum, plaster stone. a rat, (Min.) witherite. arénacée, sandstone. a repa age, — a@ repa er, hone, oilstone. — artificielle, artificial stone. — blanche, white stone; white stoneware. — cal am in a ire, (Min.) calamine. — calcaire, calcareous stone. 298 pierre 272 pierre d’aigle, (Min.) eaglestone, etites. — d’aimant, loadstone, lodestone. — d’alum, (Min.) alum stone, alunite. — d’Arménie, Armenian stone. — de Bologne, (Min.) Bologna stone (a variety of barite). — de ciment, cement block. — d'écrevi e, (Pharm.) crab’s-eye, crab’ tone. — de fond, bottom stone; (Metal.) sole. —de Labrador, (Min.) Labrador stone, labradorite. — de lair, meteoric stone, aérolite. — de lard, soapstone, steatite. — de lune, (Min.) moonstone. — dem i-doublée, a gem having the crown of different material from the rest of the stone. — de mine, ore-bearing rock; ore. — de sav on, soapstone. — de soleil, (Min.) sunstone, aventurine feldspar. — de taille, freestone; ashlar, squared stone, hewn stone. — d'étain, (Min.) tinstone, ca iterite. — de touche, touchstone. — de verre, a kind of vitreous porcelain; a kind of devitrified gla . — d’évier, sink. — de vin, tartar, wine stone. — divine, (Pharm.) a collyrium composed of copper sulfate, pota ium nitrate, alum and camphor (called also cuprum alumina tum). — factice, — fau e, imitation stone, artificial gem. — filtrante, = pierre A filtrer. — fine, gem stone, gem. — fonda men tale, foundation stone. —iinfernale, lapis infernal is (fused silver nitrate). — infernale diluée, (Pharm.) mitigated silver nitrate. — meuliére, millstone, buhrstone. — murale, caleium oxalate. — ollaire, potstone (a kind of steatite). — ophthalmique, crystallized copper sulfate. philosophale, philosophers’ stone. — plate, flat stone, stone slab. — ponce, pumice stone, pumice, — pourrie, rottenstone. — précteuse, precious stone. — réfractaire, refractory stone, firestone. — simili, an imitation gem underlaid by a reflecting surface, esp. of silver. — spéculaire, selenite; mica, pierreries, /.p/. precious stones, gems. pierrette, f. small stone.