What is "indicant"

Isomerism \I*som"er*ism\, n. (Chem.) The state, quality, or relation, of two or more isomeric substances.

Physical isomerism (Chem.), a former term for optical isomerism.

optical isomerism (Chem.), the condition or relation of certain (isomeric) substances, which, while chemically identical (in that they have the same composition, the same molecular weights, and the same ultimate constitution), are yet physically different, as in their action on polarized light, as dextro- and l[ae]vo-tartaric acids, or the sugars galactose and glucose. In such compounds there is usually at least one unsymmetrical carbon atom and typically more than one. See Unsymmetrical.

Latitudinarianism \Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an*ism\, n. A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief.

Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism.
--De Quincey.

He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion.
--J. S. Harford.

Pharmacognosis \Phar`ma*cog*no"sis\, n. [Gr. fa`rmakon a drug + gnw^sis a knowing.] That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- usually called pharmacognosy, and also pharmacography, and pharmacomathy.

Succinct \Suc*cinct"\, a. [L. succinctus, p. p. of succingere to gird below or from below, to tuck up; sub + cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture.]

1. Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

   His habit fit for speed succinct.
   --Milton.

2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.

   Let all your precepts be succinct and clear.
   --Roscommon.

   The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind.
   --South.

   Syn: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse. [1913 Webster] -- Suc*cinct"ly, adv. -- Suc*cinct"ness, n.

Heritable \Her"it*a*ble\, a. [OF. h['e]ritable. See Heritage, Hereditable.]

1. Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

2. Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.

   This son shall be legitimate and heritable.
   --Sir M. Hale.

   Heritable rights (Scots Law), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty.
   --Jacob (Law Dict.).

Sonnite \Son"nite\, n. See Sunnite.

Custard \Cus"tard\ (k[u^]s"t[~e]rd), n. [Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See Crust, and cf. Crustated.] A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.

Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona ( Anona squamosa, Anona reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp.

Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.]
--Shak.

Whang \Whang\, n. [Cf. Thong.] A leather thong. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

Whang \Whang\, v. t.

1. To beat; thrash; bang; also, to throw, hurl, or fling about, violently. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.]

2. To slice, esp. in large pieces; to chop. [Scot.]

Whang \Whang\, n.

1. A blow; whack. [Dial. or Colloq.]

2. A large piece or slice; chunk. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.]

3. Formerly, a house-cleaning party. [Local, U. S.]

gridiron-tailed lizard \gridiron-tailed lizard\ n. a lizard having a long tail with black bands ( Callisaurus draconoides), which lives in the deserts of the southwestern U. S. and Mexico; called also zebra-tailed lizard.
--RHUD

memsahib \mem"sa`hib\, mem-sahib \mem"-sa`hib\(m[e^]m"s[aum]`[i^]b), n. [Hind. mem-s[=a]hib; mem (fr. E. ma'am) + Ar. [,c][=a]hib master. See Sahib.] Lady; mistress; -- used by Hindustani-speaking natives in India in addressing European women.

Safety chain \Safety chain\

1. (Railroads) A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing.

2. An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch.

3. A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made up by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on.

   Safety arch (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under Discharge, v. t.

   Safety belt, a belt made of some buoyant material, or which is capable of being inflated, so as to enable a person to float in water; a life preserver.

   Safety buoy, a buoy to enable a person to float in water; a safety belt.

   Safety cage (Mach.), a cage for an elevator or mine lift, having appliances to prevent it from dropping if the lifting rope should break.

   Safety lamp. (Mining) See under Lamp.

   Safety match, a match which can be ignited only on a surface specially prepared for the purpose.

   Safety pin, a pin made in the form of a clasp, with a guard covering its point so that it will not prick the wearer.

   Safety plug. See Fusible plug, under Fusible.

   Safety switch. See Switch.

   Safety touchdown (Football), the act or result of a player's touching to the ground behind his own goal line a ball which received its last impulse from a man on his own side; -- distinguished from touchback. See Touchdown. Same as safety

   Safety tube (Chem.), a tube to prevent explosion, or to control delivery of gases by an automatic valvular connection with the outer air; especially, a bent funnel tube with bulbs for adding those reagents which produce unpleasant fumes or violent effervescence.

   Safety valve, a valve which is held shut by a spring or weight and opens automatically to permit the escape of steam, or confined gas, water, etc., from a boiler, or other vessel, when the pressure becomes too great for safety; also, sometimes, a similar valve opening inward to admit air to a vessel in which the pressure is less than that of the atmosphere, to prevent collapse.

drawer \draw"er\, n.

1. One who, or that which, draws; as:

   1. One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.
      --Shak.

   2. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

   3. (Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.

2. That which is drawn; as:

   1. A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.

   2. pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

      Chest of drawers. See under Chest.

Smickly \Smick"ly\, adv. Smugly; finically. [Obs.]
--Ford.

Stab \Stab\ (st[a^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stabbed (st[a^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Stabbing.] [Cf. OD. staven to fix, fasten, fr. stave, staff, a staff, rod; akin to G. stab a staff, stick, E. staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., a stake, a stub. Cf. Staff.]

1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.

2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.

central nervous system \central nervous system\ n. the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord; -- abbreviated CNS.

Syn: CNS.

Mandlestone \Man"dle*stone`\, n. [G. mandelstein almond stone.] (Min.) Amygdaloid.

Psychopathy \Psy*chop"a*thy\, n. [Psycho- + Gr. ?, ?.] (Med.) Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. -- Psy`cho*path"ic, a. -- Psy*chop"a*thist, n.

Clarinet \Clar"i*net`\, n. [F. clarinette, dim. of clarine, from L. clarus. See Clear, and cf. Clarion.] (Mus.) A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.

Note: [Often improperly called clarionet.]

Jostle \Jos"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jostled; p. pr. & vb. n. Jostling.] [A dim. of joust, just, v. See Joust, and cf. Justle.] [Written also justle.] To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against. ``Bullies jostled him.''
--Macaulay.

Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
--I. Taylor.

Indicant \In"di*cant\, a. [L. indicans, p. pr. indicare. See Indicate.] Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

Indicant \In"di*cant\, n. That which indicates or points out; as, an indicant of the remedy for a disease.

n. tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.

n. pharmacognosis

n. (plural of hypercorrection English)

adv. In a succinct manner, concisely.

n. (plural of vaejovid English)

n. (alternative form of paper cut English)

n. (context biology English) The process leading to the formation of synapses

n. The presentation of numerical data on any of many types of display

a. Without a pulpit.

n. (context mathematics English) A function of a discrete random variable yielding the probability that the variable will have a given value

n. (plural of nimiety English)

a. Pertaining to septorhinoplasty.

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches. 2 (context countable English) Any particular variety of custard.

n. (alternative form of pincushion English)

n. theophylline

n. (plural of webtoon English)

a. Insufficiently scrupulous.

Etymology 1 n. 1 (cx dialect colloquial English) A blow; a whack. 2 (cx Britain Scotland dialect colloquial English) A large piece or slice; a chunk. 3 (cx US dialect dated English) A house-cleaning party. vb. 1 (context chiefly of an object English) To make a noise such as something moving quickly through the air. 2 (context informal transitive English) To throw with a rapid slamming motion. 3 (context US Scotland Britain dialect slang English) To whack or beat. 4 (cx Scotland English) To slice, especially into large pieces; to chop. Etymology 2

alt. 1 (context UK US dialect informal dated English) A leather thong. 2 (context slang English) A penis. n. 1 (context UK US dialect informal dated English) A leather thong. 2 (context slang English) A penis.

vb. (context archaic English) (en-archaic second-person singular of: wallow)

n. (context astronomy English) A phenomenon occurring when many meteors are seen on Earth during a short period of time.

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context chiefly British informal English) information 2 (context fandom English) fanfiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex. Etymology 2

n. (alternative case form of Gen English)

vb. (en-third-person singular of: emblematize)

n. (plural of absolute pin English)

n. (plural of rheostat English)

vb. (context transitive English) To keep at a distance

n. 1 a pin, in the form of a clasp, that has a guard to cover the sharp point; used to join two pieces of fabric etc together temporarily 2 the pin of a hand grenade that prevents accidental detonation

n. 1 An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. 2 (non-gloss definition agent noun Agent noun of draw); one who draws. 3 An artist who primarily makes drawings. 4 (context banking English) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note. 5 A barman; a man who draws the beer from the taps. 6 Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.^{(w Palm wine W)}

n. A plant in the taxonomic genus ''Equisetum'' (horsetails); (taxlink Equisetum variegatum species noshow=1).

vb. (en-past of: letheonize)

alt. metallic armour made of large pieces or plates. n. metallic armour made of large pieces or plates.

adv. (context obsolete English) smugly; finically

1. (context of pain English) sharp, intense n. An incident in which a person is stabbed. v

2. (present participle of stab English)

n. (context neuroanatomy English) In vertebrates, that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.

n. The amygdaloid

vb. (en-third-person singular of: theologize)

n. A personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitation, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder.

n. (context musici English) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).

n. (context obsolete English) (plural of bastle English)

a. Possessing two spirals or helix.

n. (plural of hemicrania English)

n. An act of jostling; a push or shove. vb. (present participle of jostle English)

alt. Person who performs a belly dance. n. Person who performs a belly dance.

a. Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating. n. That which indicates or points out.

adv. with concise and precise brevity; to the point; "Please state your case as succinctly as possible"; "he wrote compactly but clearly" [syn: compactly]

n. sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen

1. n. the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: knock, belt, rap, whack]

2. v. beat with force

3. propel or hit with force; "whang the ball"

4. attack forcefully; "whang away at the school reform plan"

n. a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere [syn: meteor stream]

n. informal term for information; "give me the gen on your new line of computers"

n. a pin in the form of a clasp; has a guard so the point of the pin will not stick the user

1. n. a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out

2. the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else

3. an artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman]

n. northern North America; Greenland; northern and central Europe [syn: variegated scouring rush, Equisetum variegatum]

n. specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire [syn: armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armor]

1. adj. causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" [syn: traumatic, wounding]

2. as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain" [syn: cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, lancinate, lancinating]

1. n. a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience" [syn: pang, twinge]

2. a thrusting blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument; "one strong stab to the heart killed him" [syn: thrust, knife thrust]

3. informal words for any attempt or effort; "he gave it his best shot"; "he took a stab at forecasting" [syn: shot]

4. [also: stabbing, stabbed]

1. v. use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death" [syn: knife]

2. stab or pierce; "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife" [syn: jab]

3. poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs" [syn: jab, prod, poke, dig]

4. [also: stabbing, stabbed]

See stab

n. the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord [syn: CNS, systema nervosum centrale]

n. any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention [syn: mental illness, mental disease] [ant: mental health]

n. a single-reed instrument with a straight tube

n. a pin through the bitthead to keep the mooring lines from slipping off

n. the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) [syn: jostle]

n. a woman who performs a solo Oriental dance using exaggerated abdominal movements [syn: exotic belly dancer, exotic dancer]

1. n. something that serves to indicate or suggest; "an indication of foul play"; "indications of strain"; "symptoms are the prime indicants of disease" [syn: indication]

2. a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time [syn: index, index number, indicator]