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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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11,143 words match “HAT”

SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED a.

Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.

Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.

SODIUM SULPHATE n.

A salt well known as a catharic under the name of Glauber's salt, which term is properly applied to the hydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O.

SOMEWHAT n. 3 definitions

ess; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden.

STONECHAT n. 3 definitions

ropean singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.

The ring plover, or dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

A sulphate with an excess of the base.

A salt of sulphuric acid.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, a sulphate or sulphates.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting a sulphate as an ingredient in certain double salts; as, sulphato-carbonate. [R.]

SULPHOPHOSPHATE n.

A salt of sulphophosphoric acid.

SUPERPHOSPHATE n.

An acid phosphate. Superphosphate of lime (Com. Chem.), a fertilizer obtained by trating bone dust, bone black, or phosphorite with sulphuric acid, whereby the insoluble neutral calcium phosphate, Ca3(PO4)2, is changed to the primary or acid calcium phosphate Ca(H2PO4)2, which is soluble and therefore available for the…

SUPERSULPHATE n.

An acid sulphate. [Obs.]

THAT pron. 11 definitions

As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it refers; as, that which he has said is true; those in the basket are good apples. The early fame of Gratian was e…

THATCH n. 3 definitions

A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]

One who thatches.

THATCHING n. 2 definitions

The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc.

THIOSULPHATE n.

A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite.

THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG n.

Same as Basic slag, above.