A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.

(Ancient Greece, politics) The popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.

(UK, humorous, dated) Synonym of Queen's pipe (“furnace in which contraband tobacco is burned”)

(chemistry) The oxime of salicylaldehyde, a crystalline solid that is a chelator and sometimes used in the analysis of samples containing transition metal ions, with which it often forms brightly-c...