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Euchroite
(Eu"chro*ite) n. [See Euchroic.] (Min.) A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.

Euchrone
(Eu"chrone) n. (Chem.) A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.

Euchymy
(Eu"chy*my) n. [Gr. well + juice liquid. See Chyme.] (Med.) A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.

Euclase
(Eu"clase) n. [Gr. well, easily + to break. Cf. F. euclase, G. euklas. See named from its brittleness.] (Min.) A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

Euclid
(Eu"clid) n. A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.

Euclidian
(Eu*clid"i*an) n. Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.

Euclidian space (Geom.), the kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; — called also flat space, and homaloidal space.

Eucopepoda
(||Eu`co*pep"o*da) n. pl. [NL. See Eu- and Copepoda.] (Zoöl.) A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.

Eucrasy
(Eu"cra*sy) [Gr. well-tempered; e'y^ well + to mix, temper: cf. F. eucrasie.] (Med.) Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness. Quincy.

Euctical
(Euc"tic*al) Expecting a wish; supplicatory. [R.]

Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical.
Bp. Law.