ferriage (feriaj)

[Early mod. E. also fer i age, ferrage; 2. Provision for ferrying; means of cro ing a stream or other water by ferrying: as, inadequate ferriage; the ferriage of the river is neglected.-3. The price charged for ferrying: as, the ferriage has been reduced. But first he placed the needful obolus, The ferriage of the dead, beneath her tongue; Her spirit else had wandered by the Styx An hundred years among the wretched ghosts. R. H. Stoddard , The Fisher and Charon. ferric (fer'ik), a. [= F. ferrique , ferrum , iron: see ferreous .] Pertaining to or extracted from iron; specifically, pertaining to iron in the quadrivalent condition. A ferric compound is one in which the iron enters as a sexivalent radical (consisting of two quadrivalent atoms). These compounds are often called sesqui-compounds: as, iron sesquichlorid (Fe2Cl6), and iron sesquioxid (Fe2O3). - Ferric acid, an acid of iron (H2FeO4), never obtained in the free state. A few salts of this acid are known, and are called ferrates. Ferric salts, salts in which iron is considered as quadrivalent, and two atoms of iron form a sexivalent radical, as FeCle. iron, + E. cyan ( ogen ) +-ic.] Related to or containing the tetrad radical FeC6N6. Also ferro pru ic. - Ferrocyanic acid, H4FeCN6, an acid obtained by decomposing ferrocyanides with sulphuric acid. ferrocyanide (fer-ō-si'a-nid or -nid), n. [