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art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

dicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.

A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful vales." Sylvester.

gn personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.

An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain. Mocha stone (Min.), moss agate.

A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi. Blackstone. They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition. Landor. Modus operandi ( Etym: [L.], manner of operating.

ining, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.

taining, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds.

An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen. Monad deme (Biol.), in tectology, a unit of the first order of individuality.

Having the equivalence or replacing power of an atom of hydrogen; univalent; as, the methyl radical is monatomic.

enomination of value used in keeping accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an equivalent coin; e.g., the mill is a money of account in the United States, but not a coin. -- Money order, an order for the payment of money; specifically, a government order for the payment of money, issued at one post office as pa…

Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.

g to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.

The Dutch equivalent of Mr. or Sir; hence, a Dutchman.

An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.

Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need. A man must needs love mauger his head. Chaucer. And he must needs go through Samaria. John iv. 4. He would needs know the cause of his reulse. Sir J. Davies.

ng compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.

unds of nickel in which, as contrasted with the nickelic compounds, the metal has a lower valence; as, nickelous oxide. Frankland.

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 strong oxidizer. -…