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The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.

A compound of naphthalene or its radical with a metallic element; as, mercuric naphthide.

An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.

Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.

An elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 140.8.

A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite. Hermann.

One of the two lateral processes or elements which form the neural arch.

or base; in the former case by a positive or basic, in the latter by a negative or acid, element or radical. -- Neutral tint, a bluish gray pigment, used in water colors, made by mixing indigo or other blue some warm color. the shades vary greatly. -- Neutral vowel, the vowel element having an obscure and indefinite…

efer to the Burgundians at the time of Attila (called Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements pointing to heathen times.

A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.

esignating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid. Nitric acid, a colorless or yellowish liquid obtained by distilling a nitrate with sulphuric acid. It is powerfully corrosive, being a strong acid, and in decomposition…

A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.

A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, th…

Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

g, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic element.

A rare metallic element, of doubtful identification, said to occur in the copper-nickel of Norway.

hat part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.

To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize. [Obs.] Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions. Bp. Mannyngham.