Part 3956

<i>Davy.</i>

<h1>Euchlorine</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu*chlo"rine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>euchlorine</ets>. See <er>Euchloric</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.</def>

<h1>Euchologion, Euchology</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw><hw>Eu`cho*lo"gi*on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Eu*chol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>euchologion</ets>, Gr. <?/ prayer book; <?/ prayer, vow (fr. <?/ to pray) + <?/ to say, speak.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.</def>

<h1>Euchologue</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu"cho*logue</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>euchologe</ets>.]</ety> <def>Euchology.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Euchre</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu"chre</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Perh. from F. <ets>\'82cart\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called <i>right bower</i>, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See <er>Bower</er>.</def>

<h1>Euchre</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu"chre</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.</def> <mark>[Slang.]</mark>

<h1>Euchroic</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu*chro"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ well-colored; <?/ well + <?/ color.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Having a fine color.</def>

<cs><col>Euchroic acid</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>an organic, imide acid, obtained as a colorless crystalline substance, <chform>C12H4N2O8</chform> by heating an ammonium salt of mellitic acid. By reduction it is changed to a dark blue substance (<i>euchrone<i>), -- hence its name.</cd></cs>

<h1>Euchroite</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu"chro*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Euchroic</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.</def>

<h1>Euchrone</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu"chrone</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See <er>Eychroic</er>.</def>

<h1>Euchymy</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu"chy*my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ well + <?/ juice liquid. See <er>Chyme</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A good state of he blood and other fluids of the body.</def>

<h1>Euclase</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu"clase</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ well, easily + <?/ to break. Cf. F. <ets>euclase</ets>, G. <ets>euklas</ets>. See named from its brittleness.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.</def>

<h1>Euclid</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu"clid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A Greek geometer of the 3d century <?/; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.</def>

<h1>Euclidian</h1> <Xpage=513>

<hw>Eu*clid"i*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.</def>

<cs><col>Euclidian space</col> <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <cd>the kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also <altname>flat space</altname>, and <altname>homaloidal space</altname>.</cd></cs>