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- English Word Osmic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence higher than in other lower compounds; as, osmic oxide.
- English Word Osmidrosis Definition The secretion of fetid sweat.
- English Word Osmious Definition Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious chloride.
- English Word Osmite Definition A salt of osmious acid.
- English Word Osmium Definition A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477.
- English Word Osmometer Definition An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action in different liquids.
- English Word Osmometry Definition The study of osmose by means of the osmometer.
- English Word Osmose Definition The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.
- English Word Osmose Definition The action produced by this tendency.
- English Word Osmosis Definition Osmose.
- English Word Osmotic Definition Pertaining to, or having the property of, osmose; as, osmotic force.
- English Word Osmund Definition 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 boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.
- English Word Osnaburg Definition A species of coarse linen, originally made in Osnaburg, Germany.
- English Word Oso-berry Definition The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceae.
- English Word Osphradia Definition of Osphradium
- English Word Osphradium Definition The olfactory organ of some Mollusca. It is connected with the organ of respiration.
- English Word Ospray Definition The fishhawk.
- English Word Osprey Definition Alt. of Ospray
- English Word Oss Definition To prophesy; to presage.
- English Word Ossa Definition of Os
- English Word Osse Definition A prophetic or ominous utterance.
- English Word Ossean Definition A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.
- English Word Ossein Definition The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.
- English Word Osselet Definition A little bone.
- English Word Osselet Definition The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.
- English Word Osseous Definition Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
- English Word Osseter Definition A species of sturgeon.
- English Word Ossianic Definition Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.
- English Word Ossicle Definition A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
- English Word Ossicle Definition One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.