English English Dictionary

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid.

Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth.

Of or pertaining to the tetrodons.

A tetrodon.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H4, analogous to benzene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide; as, osmium tetroxide, OsO/.

Butyl; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Butylene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes.

To affect with tetter.

A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.

of Tetter

of Tetter

Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.

A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.

Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.

Captious; testy.

The cicada.

A genus of small grasshoppers.