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Selvedge :: Selvedge (n.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4..

Soft :: Soft (superl.) Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing..

Electrolyze :: Electrolyze (v. t.) To decompose by the direct action of electricity.

Decompose :: Decompose (v. i.) To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.

Indican :: Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo..

Decomposed :: Decomposed (a.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste..

Trass :: Trass (n.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water..

Incombustible :: Incombustible (a.) Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas..

Decompound :: Decompound (v. t.) To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.

Decomposed :: Decomposed (imp. & p. p.) of Decompos.

Meconidine :: Meconidine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed..

Invert :: Invert (v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10..

Growan :: Growan (n.) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall..

Simple :: Simple (a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a..

Rot :: Rot (v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay..

Disintegrate :: Disintegrate (v. i.) To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates..

Electrolyzable :: Electrolyzable (a.) Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity..

Unform :: Unform (v. t.) To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake..

Putrefy :: Putrefy (v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

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