- Overly diluted - very dilute - Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. - Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. - Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as,
watery humors. - Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid;
tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
- Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as
a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose
with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid.
- A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or
yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of
nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is
made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of
sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very
dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of
glonion.
- One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline
substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in
animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and
disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but,
by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always
break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol,
phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the
name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and
ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.