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The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.

To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

terests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revi…

The combining form of the Greek word 'a`stron, meaning star.

The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule.

-- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, in some simple ratio, as of one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers. -- Atomic weight (Chem.), the weight of…

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham.

ies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Combined with auric acid.

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.

le suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, rangi…

A combining form of azote;

A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite. [R.]

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.]