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phycochrome (medicine)


phycochrome
<botany> A bluish green colouring matter of certain algae.

Origin: Gr. Seaweed + colour.

Source: Websters Dictionary


picket(2) (iou)



picket verb. M18.
[from PICKET noun1.]
verb trans.
a. Enclose with pickets or stakes; fence. M18.
b. Tether (a horse etc.) to a picket. E19.
Horse & Hound A Cavalry Regiment must..be able to picket its horses.
verb trans. Punish or torture with the picket. obsolete exc. Hist. M18.
verb trans. & intrans. Military. Post (soldiers) as a picket. L18.
a. verb trans. Establish a picket at (a place of work etc.). M19.
R. Brautigan A more valid protest than picketing missile bases.
b. verb intrans. Demonstrate as a picket. M19.
Times Strikers..were picketing near the main gates.
picketer noun M19.