Vocabulary : Polychord to Polychromy

Polychord : Having many strings. ;; A musical instrument of ten strings. ;; An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.
Polychrest : A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.
Polychroism : Same as Pleochroism.
Polychroite : The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- called also crocin, and safranin.
Polychromate : A salt of a polychromic acid. ;; A compound which exhibits, or from which may be prepared, a variety of colors, as certain solutions derived from vegetables, which display colors by fluorescence.

Polychromatic : Showing a variety, or a change, of colors.
Polychrome : Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions. ;; Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome printing.
Polychromic : Polychromatic. ;; Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of chromium.
Polychromous : Of or pertaining to polychromy; many-colored; polychromatic.
Polychromy : The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.

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