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The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.

Great as a man's arm. [Obs.] A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.

Same as Aret. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Arsenide.

Combined with arsenic; -- said some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen. [Also spelt arseniuretted.]

The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity. W. Smith.

Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

ls and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

Formerly; aforetime. [They] dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.

Same as Berretta.

A pastoral song. [Obs.]

A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule. [Obs. or R.]

A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance. [Obs.]

Same as Berretta.

See Bisulphide.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.