Indian turnip

Bot .: (1) Arisæma atrorubens ; (2) the tubers of Psoralea esculent a . Indian-wheat, s . Bot.: A name for maize or Indian-corn (q. v.). Indian-yellow, s. A pigment produced from the urine of the camel. It has a great power of resisting the sun's rays. In-di-ăn-a, s. [Named from Indian .] One of the States of the U. S. A., nicknamed "the Hoosier State." Bounded W. by Illinois, from which it is partly separated by the Wabash river, N. by Lake Michigan and the State of Michigan, E. by Ohio, and S. by the Ohio river, which separates it from Kentucky. Area, 36,350 square miles. Agriculture, coal mining and stone quarrying are the chief ind us. tries. The principal cities are Indianapolis, the capital and metropolis; Evansville, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, South Bend, New Albany and Logans port. IMG:content-1599.png:[blocks in formation] Indi anite, s. [Named from India, where it is found.) Min.: A variety of Anorthite. It is granular, and of a white, gray, or reddish color. In-di-can, s, Lat. indic( um )=a blue pigment, probably indigo; Eng. suff.-an.] Chem .: C26H31 NO27. A clear brown syrup of bitter and repulsive taste, existing in many species of plants, but especially in Dyer's wood ( Is at is tinct or i a ). 1). It is extracted from the dried leaves with alcohol, the resulting greenish tincture being allowed to evaporate spontaneously. The residue is next treated with water, filtered, and the filtrate shaken with cupric hydrate, and again filtered. On the removal of the copper by means of sulphydric acid, the clear solution is found to contain almost pure indican. It is soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, and on boiling with dilute acids it is decomposed into indigo blue and indiglucin. It cannot be dried without decomposing. Indican is sometimes found in the urine of man, both in health and disease. It has also been found in the blood of man, and in the blood and urine of the ox. In-di-căn-In, s. [Eng. indican ; -in.] Chem.: C20H23NO12. A yellow or brownish-yellow bitter syrup, produced together with indiglucin by the action of soda-ley or baryta-water on indican, the indiglucin being separated by means of ether, in which it is insoluble. It is soluble in water, alcohol, and ether. In-di-cant, a. & s. [Lat. indicans, pr. par. of indico to point out.] A. As adj .: Indicating or serving to indicate a disease or its remedy. B. As subst.: That which indicates or points out the nature of a disease or its remedy. in-di cate, v . t . & i . [Lat. indicatus , pa. par of indico to point out or toward: in- toward, and dico to proclaim, to make known; Sp. indicar ; Ital. indicare ; Fr. indiquer .] IMG:content-1600.png:[blocks in formation] 2303 II. Med.: To point out or toward the proper remedy or remedies for any disease; to show or manifest by symptoms. "This præternatural thirst indicates and calls for a lancet, rather than a julep."- Boyle : Works, ii. 370. in-di-cat-ěd, pa . par . & a. [INDICATE.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) indiction 5. Telegraphy : The dial and mechanism of a dial telegraph. The face has the letters and figures arranged in two concentric circles. The motion of the hand is continuous in one direction, advancing one letter at each closing of the circuit. The movement is effected by clock-work driving a scapewheel, the teeth of which are alternately engaged and released upon opening and closing the circuit, the armature of the electro-magnets. B. As adj .: Pointed out, denoted, marked, shown. by means of a pawl operated intermediately from indicated horse-power, s . Steam : The horse-power up to which an engine really works; the true effective power of an engine, as distinguished from the nominal. [HORSE POWER, 2.] In-di-ca-tion, s. [Lat. indicatio , from indicatus, pa. par. of indico =to indicate (q. v.); Fr. indica tion ; Sp. indicacion ; Ital. indicazione .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of indicating or pointing out. "The description and indication of hours."-Hale. Origin of Mankind , p. 340. 2. That which indicates, or serves to indicate or point out; a mark, sign, or token; an intimation; a symptom. "While they were waiting for some indication of his wishes."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. 3. Information or intelligence given. 4. Explanation; display. IMG:content-1601.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang.: Pointing or serving to point out; indicating; denoting; giving notice or intimation of something not visible or obvious. "The truth is productive of utility, and utility indica tive of truth." - War burton : Alliance between Church and State , ch. ii. 2. Gram .: A term applied to that mood of a verb which affirms, or denies, or asks questions. "The instance of Isaac ble ing Jacob, which in the several parts was expre ed in all forms, indicative , optative, enunciative."-Bp. Taylor: Divine Institution of the Office Ministerial. B. As substantive: Gram.: The indicative mood. In a manner to indicate, show, or point out. In-dic-a-tive-lý, adv . [Eng. indicative ; -ly.] In-di-ca-tör, s . [Lat., from indicatus , pa. par. of indico ; Fr. indicateur ; Ital. indicatore .] I. Ord. Lang.: One who or that which indicates or points out. II. Technically : 1. Anat .: [INDICATOR-MUSCLE.] 2. Chem .: A reagent used in volumetric analysis to indicate, by change of color, the exact point at which the precipitation of any chemical body from a solution is completed. Thus, in estimating the amount of hydrochloric acid present in a solution, a standard solution of silver nitrate is used, but as it is difficult to determine the exact point at which the action is completed, a few drops of a solution of yellow pota ic chromate, the indicator, are added. As soon as the hydrochloric acid is entirely precipitated as silver chloride, the silver nitrate attacks the indicator, producing a faint, blood-red tinge, an evidence that all the chlorine has entered into combination with the silver, and that the slight exce has formed the silver chromate. Indicators are also used to determine, by change of color, the precise point at which a liquid ceases to be either acid or alkaline. The chief reagents used as indicators are yellow pota ic chromate, pota ic ferrocyanide, indigo, carmine, litmus, turmeric, Porrier's orange, tropœolin, phenolphthalein, eosin, rosalic acid, . 3. Steam - engine : An instrument for measuring the horse-power of a steam-engine. It consists of a small vertical cylinder having a piston, kept down by a spring. The piston-rod carries a pencil mov. ing vertically acro a card vibrated horizontally by the piston-rod of the engine under measurement. Steam is admitted beneath the indicator-piston from the cylinder of the engine measured. and the pencil marks on the card the varying steam pre ure in the cylinder, whence the power of the engine may be computed. 4. Optics: A finger working in the field of a microscope to point out a special object within the field of view. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; 6. Rail . Eng .: The gradient post of a railway. 7. Furnace: A gauge in a blast-furnace to indicate the proper height of a charge. 8. Ornith.: The typical genus of the family Indicatorinse (q. v.). Indicator major is the Larger, and I. minor the Le er Honey-guide of South Africa.