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Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt , a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical. (more info) Relating
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Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt , a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical. (more info) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt. Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt. Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - HYDROGENIUM
Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - ELEMENTAL
1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. - BASICITY
The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - ELEMENT
1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORME
First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
The quality or state of being negative. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - PARTIALISM
Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists. - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - RADICALNESS
Quality or state of being radical. - BASIC PROCESS
A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - BASILIC; BASILICAL
Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican. - POLYBASIC
Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.