‖n. [ Skr. dēvanāgarī; dēva god + nagara city,
prop. a. Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba;
Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . . smoked them in the stable. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., fr. levare to raise. ] (Rom. Myth.) A goddess who protected newborn infants. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The Barbary ape, a tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of Northwest Africa and Gibralter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. (Chem.) A salt of metavanadic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. meta- + vanadic. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Skr. nirvā&nsdot_;a. ] In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pyro- + vanadic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of vanadium, analogous to pyrophosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. vanadate. ] (Chem.) A salt of vanadic acid.
a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the
Vanadic acid (Chem.),
n. (Min.) A mineral occurring in yellowish, brownish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consists of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the
n. (Chem.) A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ NL., fr. Icel. Vanadīs, a surname of the Scandinavian goddess Freya. ] (Chem.) A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 50.94 (C12=12.000). [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
(Chem.) A yellow pigment consisting of a compound of vanadium. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the
n. [ Vanadium + -yl. ] (Chem.) The hypothetical radical