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Microörganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

f the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.

The positive or negative stimulus exerted by oxygen on aërobic and anaërobic bacteria. -- A`ër*o*tac"tic (#), a.

An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe.

To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.

e or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

els as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

Any aëriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air. [Obs.]

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

f wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which…

A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation.

An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

ntaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

Anything held allodially. W. Coxe.

The German language. J. Foxe.

One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3.