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A salt of osmic acid. [Formerly written also osmiate.]

A salt of osmiamic acid.

signating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.

ulphuric acid, not known in the free state, but forming a well-known and stable series of salts (osmates), which were formerly improperly called osmites. -- Osmic tetroxide (Chem.), a white volatile crystalline substance, OsO4, the most stable and characteristic of the compounds of osmium. It has a burning taste, and…

(Chem.), an acid derived from osmium, analogous to sulphurous acid, and forming unstable salts. It is a brown amorphous substance.

A salt of osmious acid.

conducting the process of osmosis. It is used esp. in sugar refining to remove potassium salts from the molasses.

matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

OSSIFICATION n. 2 definitions

f bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

OSSIFY v. 3 definitions

into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

A small landlocked variety of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ounaniche) of Lake St. John, Canada, and neighboring waters, noted for its vigor and activity, and habit of leaping from the water when hooked.

OUTCRY n. 2 definitions

Sale at public auction. Massinger. Thackeray.

OUTGOING n. 4 definitions

mit; the place of ending. [Obs.] The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan. Josh. xviii. 19.

OUTLEAP n. 2 definitions

A sally. [R.] Locke.

OUTPUT n. 3 definitions

sumed to contain all the nitrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large quantity of saline matters and water. Foster.

OUTSELL v. 2 definitions

To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.

To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions. [Obs.] What madman would o'erstand his market twice Dryden.

A salt of oxalic acid.

dyeing, calico printing, bleaching flax and straw, the preparation of formic acid, and in salts of lemon for removing ink stains, mold, etc.

A salt of oxaluric acid.