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Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.

lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away. The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon.…

ydroxide, which is called Nessler's solution or Nessler's test, and is used to detect the presence of ammonia.

A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates.

A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.

perly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion. [Written also nitroglycerine.]

An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats. Knight.

To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [Obs.] In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it Barrow.

A meteorite characterized by the presence of but a small amount of metallic iron.

Omnipresence. [Obs.]

Implying universal presence. [R.] South.

An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.

Serving to indicate the presence or the amount of ozone.

Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.

n the plural. [Obs.] Lords in paraments on their coursers. Chaucer. Chamber of paraments, presence chamber of a monarch.

ar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellæ.

An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

The presence of peptone, or a peptonelike body, in the urine.

An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.

n, or child, in distinction from a corporation. -- In person, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." Shak. -- In the person of, in the place of; acting for. Shak.