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United closely; confederated; chemically united.

; jointly.

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amountin…

Combined with acetic acid.

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

Combined with alumina.

Coalesced; united; combined.

Combined or impregnated with ammonia.

Combined or prepared with antimony; as, antimoniated tartar.

Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen. [Written also antimoniuretted.]

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage…

Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver.

very brittle, and sublimes at 356º Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenticum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons.…

Combined with arsenic; -- said some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen. [Also spelt arseniuretted.]

The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.

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

Combined with auric acid.

Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.

The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

paration consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.