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The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian.
A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid.
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Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea.
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A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia.
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A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia.
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An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.
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Hydrous sulphate of magnesia found at the salt mines of Stassfurt, Prussian Saxony.
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Of or pertaining to Prussia.
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Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.
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A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.
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A native or inhabitant of Prussia.
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Prussia leather; pruce.
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Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.
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Prussian leather.
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Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.
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The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia.
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Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).
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Literally, a customs union; specifically, applied to the several customs unions successively formed under the leadership of Prussia among certain German states for establishing liberty of commerce among themselves and common tariff on imports, exports, and transit.
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The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.
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designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.
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