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Same as Hydrobromide.

Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid. Hydrobromic acid (Chem.), a colorless, pungent, corrosive gas, HBr, usually collected as a solution in water. It resembles hydrochloric acid, but is weaker and less stable. Called also hydrogen bromide.

A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base.

The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.

Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. He . . . sent to Elutherius, then bishop of Rome, an improbable letter, as some of the contents discover. Milton. -- Im*prob"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prob"a*bly, adv.…

To disapprove of; to disallow. [Obs.]

The act of disapproving; disapprobation.

Implying, or tending to, improbation.

Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity. Hooker.

One of the Inferobranchiata.

A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths. Crabb.

Long-lived. Dunglison.

The art of prolonging life.

An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

isting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.

Spherobacteria, or spherical bacteria, as the genus Micrococcus.

An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.

anism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.