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The egg of a louse or other small insect. Nit grass (Bot.), a pretty annual European grass (Gastridium lendigerum), with small spikelets somewhat resembling a nit. It is also found in California and Chili.

Brightness; luster. [R.]

A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

See Niding.

Bright; lustrous; shining. [R.] Boyle.

nating, a complex organic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.

Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline. In general they are yellow crystalline substances.

A salt of nitric acid. Nitrate of silver, a white crystalline salt (AgNO3), used in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also lunar caustic.

Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.

s, usually of a white, sometimes of a reddish gray, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. It is used in making nitric acid and for manure. Called also soda niter.

See Niter.

An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid. Nitric acid, a colorless or yellowish liquid obtained by distilling a nitrate with sulphuric acid. It is power…

A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.

Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter.

The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.

An agent employed in nitrification.

To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.

A salt of nitrous acid. Amyl nitrite, a yellow oily volatile liquid, used in medicine as a depressant and a vaso-dilator. Its inhalation produces an instantaneous flushing of the face.