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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,336 words match “HIT”

HYDROSULPHITE n.

A saline compound of hydrosulphurous acid and a base. [R.]

HYPOPHOSPHITE n.

A salt of hypophosphorous acid.

HYPOSULPHITE n. 2 definitions

A salt of what was formerly called hyposulphurous acid; a thiosulphate. [Obs.]

A Japhetite. Kitto.

One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew. Kitto.

LINTIE; LINTWHITE n.

See Linnet. Tennyson.

See Lymphadenitis.

Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.

See Mechitarist.

One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church.

MEPHITIC; MEPHITICAL a. 2 definitions

Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.

MEPHITIS n. 2 definitions

Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.

Same as Mephitis, 1.

A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.

NEOCLASSIC ARCHITECTURE n.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere. [Archaic] "Thy servant went nowhither." 2 Kings v. 25.

OMPHALOPSYCHITE n.

A name of the Hesychasts, from their habit of gazing upon the navel.

OPHIOMORPHITE n.

OPHITE a. 3 definitions

Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]