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A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidæ; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively.

dei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.

One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.

insect of the genus Mantispa, and allied genera. The larvæ feed on plant lice. Also used adjectively. See Illust. under Neuroptera.

pendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.

.), denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. Also used adjectively.

The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively.

made with a mortise and tenon; joined or united by means of a mortise and tenon; -- used adjectively. -- Mortise joint, a joint made by a mortise and tenon. -- Mortise lock. See under Lock. -- Mortise wheel, a cast-iron wheel, with wooden clogs inserted in mortises on its face or edge; -- also called mortise gear,…

A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.

and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.

on atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.

A combining form (used also adjectively) designating certain compounds of nitrogen or of its acids, as nitrohydrochloric, nitrocalcite; also, designating the group or radical NO2, or its compounds, as nitrobenzene. Nitro group, the radical NO2; -- called also nitroxyl.

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

loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.

of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. "They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbro…

The hydrocarbon radical, C9H19, derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.