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A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. Bacon.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.

Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. [R.]

To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal. [R.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3).

Pertaining to, or designating, a supposed acid obtained from pectin.

Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.

Designating an acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water; of or pertaining to such an acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a compound of tin (metastannic acid), obtained, as an isomeric modification of stannic acid, in the form of a white amorphous substance.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.

to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics. If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. G. H. Lewes.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic (thionic) acid derivative of methane, obtained as a stable white crystalline substance, CH2.(SO3H)2, which forms well defined salts.

To impregnate or mix with methyl or methyl alcohol.

Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, methyl; specifically, designating methyl alcohol. See under Methyl.

re formed from multiples by 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000. The successive multiplies are designated by the prefixes, deca-, hecto-, kilo-, and myria-; successive parts by deci-, centi-, and milli-. The prefixes mega- and micro- are sometimes used to denote a multiple by one million, and the millionth part, respectively. S…