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The act or process by which an acid and a base are combined in such proportions that the resulting compound is neutral. See Neutral, a., 4.

metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.

Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.

The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.

To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.

To combine, or impregnate, with nitrogen or its compounds.

A short or waste piece or knot of wool separated from the longer staple by combing; also, a similar piece or shred of waste silk.

Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

, to occasion anxiety. South. If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make several combinations of simple ideas into distinct modes. Locke.

A combining form denoting relation to, or situation near, the occiput; as, occipito-axial; occipito-mastoid.

Having a valence of eight; capable of being combined with, exchanged for, or compared with, eight atoms of hydrogen; -- said of certain atoms or radicals.

A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octodecimal, octolocular.

of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids.

A combining form from L. oculus the eye.

A combining form from Gr.

ight upon the earth. Milton. In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms. Sir I. Newton.

A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.

Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, an…

ived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14