See Also: Xanthic(medicine)
xanthic(dictionary)

toupet (iou) and xanthic (iou)


toupet (iou)



toupet noun. E18.
[French: see TOUPEE.]
= TOUPEE.

xanthic (iou)



xanthic adjective. E19.
[from XANTH(O- + -IC.]
Chemistry. Orig., designating, pertaining to, or producing any of various yellow compounds, including xanthine. Now only spec., designating or derived from a xanthic acid (see below). E19.
xanthic acid an organic acid containing sulphur, C2H5OCSSH, many of whose salts are yellow; any of the colourless reactive acids of the General formula ROCSSH or ROCSSR' (where R and R' are alkyl or similar groups). xanthic oxide (now rare or obsolete) [from its yellow compound with nitric acid] = XANTHINE.
Yellow, yellowish. rare. M19.