Osmiamate
Os′mi‐am″ate (?), n.(Chem.) A salt of osmiamic acid.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Osmiamic
Os′mi‐am″ic (?), a. [Osmium + amido.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.
Osmic
Os″mic (?), a.(Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence higher than in other lower compound...
Osmidrosis
‖Os′mi‐dro″sis (?), n.(Med.) The secretion of fetid sweat.
Osmious
Os″mi‐ous (?), a.(Chem.) Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious chloride. [Written also ...
Osmite
Os″mite (?), n.(Chem.) A salt of osmious acid.
Osmium
Os″mi‐um (?), n. [Gr. οσμἤ a smell, odor, akin to � to smell. So named in allusion to the strong chlorinelike odor of osmic tetroxide. See Odor.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element...
Osmogene
Os″mo‐gene (?), n. [Osmose + root of Gr. � race.] An apparatus, consisting of a number of cells whose sides are of parchment paper, for conducting the process of osmosis. It is ...
Osmograph
Os″mo‐graph (?), n. [Osmose + -graph.] (Physics) An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.
Osmometer
Os‐mom″e‐ter (?), n. [Gr. ωσμὄσ impulse + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action in different liquids.
Osmometry
Os‐mom″e‐try (?), n.(Physics) The study of osmose by means of the osmometer.
Osmose
Os″mose (ŏz″mōs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ωσμὄσ, equiv. to ὠ̑σισ impulse, fr. ωθεἰ̑ν to push.] (Chemical Physics) (a) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in...
Osmosis
Os‐mo″sis (?), n. Osmose.
Osmotic
Os‐mot″ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or having the property of, osmose; as, osmotic force.
Osmund
Os″mund (?), n.(Bot.) A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or bog...
Osnaburg
Os″na‐burg (?), n. A species of coarse linen, originally made in Osnaburg, Germany.
Oso-berry
O″so–ber′ry (?), n.(Bot.) The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.
Osphradium
‖Os‐phra″di‐um (?), n.; pl.Osphradia (#). (Zoöl.) The olfactory organ of some Mollusca. It is connected with the organ of respiration.
Osprey
{ Os″prey, Os″pray } (?), n. [Through OF. fr. L. ossifraga (orig., the bone breaker); prob. influenced by oripelargus (mountain stork, a kind of eagle, Gr. �); cf. OF. orpres, a...
Oss
Oss (?), v. i. [See Osse, n.] To prophesy; to presage. R. Edgeworth.
Osse
Osse (?), n. A prophetic or ominous utterance. Holland.
Ossean
Os″se‐an (?), n.(Zoöl.) A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.
Ossein
Os″se‐in (?), n. [L. os bone.] (Physiol. Chem.) The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue,...
Osselet
Os″se‐let (?), n. 1. A little bone.2. (Zoöl.) The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.
Osseous
Os″se‐ous (?), a. [L. osseus, from os, ossis bone; akin to Gr. οστἔον, Skr. asthi. Cf. Oyster.] Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
Osseter
Os″se‐ter (?), n. [Russ, osetr' sturgeon.] (Zoöl.) A species of sturgeon.
Ossianic
Os′si‐an″ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.The compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic. G. Eliot.