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Webster 1913 Edition


Coridine

Co′ri-dine

(k?′r?-d?n; 104)
,
Noun.
[From L.
cortium
leather.]
A colorless or yellowish oil,
C10H15N
, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel’s oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type.
[Written also
corindine
.]