niobate (niobat), (niobat)

[ the anger of Apollo and Artemis (Diana), by boasting over their mother Leto (Latona), who had but those two children. She was punished by seeing all her children die by the arrows of the two light-deities. She herself was metamorphosed by Zeus (Jupiter) into a stone which it is still sought to identify on the slope of Mount Sipylus, near Smyrna. This legend has afforded a fruitful subject for art, and was notably represented in a group attributed to Scopas, now best known from copies in the Uffizi at Florence. Not a word can bee spoke but nips him somewhere. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Suspitious or [Jealous Man. 3. To sever or break the edge or end of by pinching; pinch (off) with the ends of the fingers or with pincers or nippers: with off. He [a tench] will bite...ata... worm with his head nip'd off. 1. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 178. 4. To blast, as by frost; destroy; check the growth or vigor of. I observed that Cypre are the only trees that grow towards the top which, being nipped by the cold, do not grow spirally, but like small oaks. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 105. Is it that the bleak sea-gale Nips too keenly the sweet flower? M. Arnold, Tristram and Iseult. 5. To affect with a sharp tingling sensation; benumb. When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul. Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 926. Though tempests howl, Or nipping frost remind thee trees are bare. Words worth, Cuckoo-clock. 2. In zool .: (a) A genus of trilobites. (b) A genus of mollusks. (c) A genus of African weaver-birds of the subfamily Fiduinæ. N.ar dens and N. concolor are examples. Niobean (ni-ō-bē'an), a. [ Niobeus , pertaining to Niobe, Niobe , Niobe: see Niobe .] 6. To bite; sting. Of or pertaining to Niobe; resembling Niobe. A Niobean daughter, one arm out, Appealing to the bolts of Heaven. Tennyson, Prince , iv. niobic (ni-ō'bik), a . [ niob ( ium ) + -ic .] Of or pertaining to niobium. - Niobic acid, an acid formed by the hydration of niobium pentoxid. Niobid (ni'ō-bid), n. [ Νιοβίδης , a son of Niobe, pl. Noida , the children of Niobe, Νιόβη , dren of Niobe. Niobe: see Niobe and -id2 .] One of the chil Of the Niobids at Florence, besides the mother with the youngest daughter, ten figures may be held as genuine. C. O. Müller, Manual of Archæol. (trans.), § 126.