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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From

toluidine

, by transposition.]

(Chem.)

Any one of several metameric alkaloids,

C5H3N.(CH3)2

, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively

dimethyl pyridine

ethyl pyridine

, etc.

lutidine ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lutidines)

(organic chemistry) Any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar