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(. (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) designating the group or radical NO, called the nitroso group, or its compounds.

the radical NO, called also the nitroso group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds. Nitrous acid (Chem.), a hypothetical acid of nitrogen HNO2, not known in the free state, but forming a well known series of salts, viz., the nitrites. -- Nitrous oxide. Se…

One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service. Hook.

To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.

The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated. The nomination of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself. Clarendon.

Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. -- n.

A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.

Of, pertaining to, related to, or designating, nonylene or its compounds; as, nonylenic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; as, nonylic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the aromatic series obtained from opianic acid.

To denote; to designate. Johnson.

A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.

a bad sense. There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudities. Dryden.

r apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.

To mark or designate with an obelisk.

To designate with an obelus; to mark as doubtful or spirituous. [R.]

Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.

Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory. Bancroft. The objurgatory question of the Pharisees. Paley.

s; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Yuo are not for obscurity designed. Dryden. They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. Macaulay.