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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A simplified spelling of xanthine.
  2. n. One of several substances, so named with reference to their color. ( Especially— That part of the yellow coloring matter of flowers which is insoluble in water.

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of xanthine.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. same as xanthine.
  2. n. (Chem.) A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.
  3. n. (Chem.), obsolete One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.

Etymologies

  1. From German Xanthin ("xanthine") (Wiktionary)

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