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Any one of several metameric unsaturated hydrocarbons (C9H14) of the valylene series.

Any one of a series of metameric, unsaturated hydrocarbons C9H18 of the ethylene series.

Oral; not written. Nuncupative will or testament, a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers. Gray.

A Linnæan class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.

Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.

Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.

A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.

A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament. [R.]

Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids.

allow, hareld, and old wife. -- Old style. (Chron.) See the Note under Style. -- Old Testament. See under Testament. -- Old wife. [In the senses b and cwritten also oldwife.] (a) A prating old woman; a gossip. Refuse profane and old wives' fables. 1 Tim. iv. 7.

Having few stamens.

Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.

to optics. Optically active, Optically inactive (Chem. Physics), terms used of certain metameric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. -- Optically positive, Optically negati…

plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike…

That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.

Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.

A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra. Owen.

Hydroxybutyric; designating any one of a group of metameric acids (C3H6.OH.CO2H).

A writing; a book. Testament of love. Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third. Ascham.