(n) crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa, Syn.tichodrome, Tichodroma muriaria
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n. [ So named from the supposition that it was the original home of the lemurs. ] A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Muriatic. ] (Chem.) A salt of muriatic hydrochloric acid; a chloride; as, muriate of ammonia. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This term, as also the word muriatic, was formerly applied to the chlorides before their true composition was understood, and while they were erroneously supposed to be compounds of an acid with an oxide. Muriate and muriatic are still occasionally used as commercial terms, but are obsolete in scientific language. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. muriaticus pickled, from muria brine: cf. F. muriatique. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric. [ 1913 Webster ]
Muriatic acid, hydrochloric acid, HCl; -- formerly called also marine acid, and spirit of salt. See hydrochloric, and the Note under Muriate. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. nitromuriatique. See Nitro-, and Muriatic. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or composed of, nitric acid and muriatic acid; nitrohydrochloric. See Nitrohydrochloric. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Oxy- (a) + muriatic: cf. F. oxymuriatique. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, oxygen and muriatic acid, that is, hydrochloric acid. [ Archaic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Oxymuriatic acid, chlorine, formerly so called on the supposition that it was a compound of oxygen and muriatic acid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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