{ } n. [ L. alleluia, Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. hallēlū-yāh. See Hallelujah. ] An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. [ 1913 Webster ]

I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. belluinus, fr. bellua beast. ] Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Animal and belluine life. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something, as indigo or other preparations, used to give a bluish tint, especially to white clothing when being washed. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins. “Bluish mists.” Dryden. -- Blu"ish*ly, adv. -- Blu"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve. [ Written also deluing. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dys- ill, hard + &unr_; to loose, dissolve. ] (Min.) A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n., or . [ NL.; electro- + Gr. poiw^n, p. pr. of poiei^n to make. ] (Elec.) An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. fluidus, fr. fluere to flow: cf. F. fluide. See Fluent. ] Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species. Water, air, and steam are fluids. By analogy, the term was sometimes applied to electricity and magnetism, as in phrases electric fluid, magnetic fluid, though not strictly appropriate; such usage has disappeared. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Fluid dram, or
Fluid drachm, a measure of capacity equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce. --
Fluid ounce. (a) In the United States, a measure of capacity, in apothecaries' or wine measure, equal to one sixteenth of a pint or 29.57 cubic centimeters. This, for water, is about 1.04158 ounces avoirdupois, or 455.6 grains. (b) In England, a measure of capacity equal to the twentieth part of an imperial pint. For water, this is the weight of the avoirdupois ounce, or 437.5 grains. --
Fluids of the body. (Physiol.) The circulating blood and lymph, the chyle, the gastric, pancreatic, and intestinal juices, the saliva, bile, urine, aqueous humor, and muscle serum are the more important fluids of the body. The tissues themselves contain a large amount of combined water, so much, that an entire human body dried in vacuo with a very moderate degree of heat gives about 66 per cent of water. --
Burning fluid,
Elastic fluid,
Electric fluid,
Magnetic fluid, etc. See under Burning, Elastic, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fluidal structure (Geol.), the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; -- also called fluxion structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fluidité. ] The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform, or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class of society. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fluidized p. pr. & vb. n. Fluidizing. ] To render fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being fluid; fluidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Fluid ounce, under Fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Fluid dram, under Fluid. Pharm. of the U. S. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat gluey. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. & interj. [ Heb. See Alleluia. ] Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration. Rev. xix. 1 (Rev. Ver. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

So sung they, and the empyrean rung
With Hallelujahs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those days, as St. Jerome tells us, “any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs.” Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. -ized p. pr. & vb. n. -izing ] [ (J. J. Lloyd) Margary, inventor of the process + -ize. ] To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called . [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Biol.) An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast, some ammonia compound, sugar, and water. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Imperfectly fluid. -- n. A semifluid substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. escluse, F. écluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude. ] 1. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The stream flowing through a flood gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sluiced p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing ] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice. [ 1913 Webster ]

And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. super above + fluitans, p. pr. of fluitare intensive fr. fluere to flow. ] Floating above or on the surface. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. -- Su`per*flu"i*tance n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

n.; pl. Superfluities [ L. superfluité, L. superfluitas. See Superfluous. ] 1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. [ 1913 Webster ]

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess. “By a superfluity abominable.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Superabundance; excess; redundancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is used in the aniline dye industry, and constitutes the essential nucleus or radical of those dyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + sluice. ] To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]