lirIodendron

[Gr. leiriona lily, and dendron a tree.] 1. Bot .: A genus of Magnolia cere, tribe Magnoliee. Liriodendron tulip if era is the Tulip-tree, Whitewood, Candle-wood, Tulip-bearing Lily tree, Virgin i an Poplar or Poplar of America. It is a tall tree, with fiddle-shaped leaves, tulip or lily-like flowers with six petals in two rows. The bark has properties like that of Cinchona. 2. Palæobot .: The genus is believed to have been found in the Pliocene of Europe. lir-i-o-den-dron-in, lir-i-o-den-drin, subst. [Eng. liriodendron; -in.] Chem. A neutral, bitter, and partly volatile substance from the tulip-tree. It crystallizes from alcohol in scales or needles, and melts at 83°. *lir-i-pip-i-on-at-ed, a . [LIRIPOOP.] Hooded; wearing a liri poop. "Master Janotus liri pipi on a ted with a graduate's hood." -Urquhart: Rabelais, bk. i., ch. xviii. *lir'-i-poôp, *lyr-1-poop, *lyrri-pup, *lir-ry-poop, *ler-ripippes, *lir-i-pip, s . [O. Fr. liripepion , from Low Lat. liri pipium, said to be a corruption of Latin cleri ephippium =the caparison of a cleric. 1. The ancient dre of a clergyman; in early times, probably a hood or tippet; later, a scarf or an append a go to the ancient hood, consisting of long tails or tippets, pa ing round the neck ( From a fifteenth-cen. Liripoop. 3. A term applied to prepared solution, as(1) Dyeing: A dye or mordant in solution, as tin- and hanging down to the feet, tury MS. in Strutt) liquor. (2) Liquor of Libavius : Bichloride of tin. (3) Sugar : A solution of sugar, used in claying the loaves. 4. Pharm., & c .: A watery solution, either of inorganic substances or of certain definite active organic principles. They differ both from plant juices and from extracts. Garrod enumerates thir. ty-five liquors used by medical practitioners; as, liquor ammon iæ , liquor ferri per chlorid i , . liquor: Intoxicated. liquor amnios, s. Bot.: The fluid matter contained within the nucleus of an ovule, and supposed to nourish the embryo during its growth.