"Supernatant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upper; highest &c (topmost) 210; high reaching, insessorial^, perching. upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt^, cloudcapt^, cloudtouching^; aerial. overhanging &c v.; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent^, supernatant, superimposed; prominent &c v. 250. tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky &c (thin) 203. Adv. on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind^; upstairs, abovestairs^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... Stomach.—Neutralize the contents of the stomach, if acid, with sodium carbonate; place them in a retort and carefully distil. Collect the distillate, mix with chloride of calcium or anhydrous sulphate of copper, and again distil. Agitate distillate with dry potassium carbonate, and draw off some of the supernatant fluid ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson |
