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Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds. Hyponitrous acid , an unstable nitrogen acid, NOH, whose salts are produced by reduction of the nitrates, although the acid itself is not isolated in the free
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Containing or derived from nitrogen having a lower valence than in nitrous compounds. Hyponitrous acid , an unstable nitrogen acid, NOH, whose salts are produced by reduction of the nitrates, although the acid itself is not isolated in the free state except as a solution in water; -- called also nitrosylic acid.
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- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - DERIVATIVE
Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - LOWERY
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - VALENCE
The degree of combining power of an atom as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - PRODUCTIVITY
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. - ISOLATE
To insulate. See Insulate. (more info) 1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. - PRODUCTUS
An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. - NITROGENOUS
of, pertaining to, or resembling, nitrogen; as, a nitrogenous principle; nitrogenous compounds. Nitrogenous foods. See 2d Note under Food, n., 1. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.