Nit

nit, n. The egg of a louse or other small insect. Niter, -tre, ni'ter, n. (Chem.) A white, crystalline salt, nitrate of pota a, having a pungent, saline altaste,— used in the manufacture of gunpowder, etc.; saltpeter. — Ni'trate, -trat, n. A salt formed by the or union of nitric acid with a base. — Nitrate of silver. A transparent crystalline substance obtained by dis-; solving silver in nitric acid: when fused it becomes lunar caustic. — Ni'tride, -trid, n. A compound of nitrogen with any other element or radical, as with phosphorus, silicon, or one of the metals. — Ni'tric, n. a. Compounded of nitrogen and oxygen. See Nitrous.— Nitric acid. A powerful, corrosive acid, of containing 5 equivalents of oxygen and 1 of nitrogen. — Ni'trous, -trus, -try, -trT, a. Compounded of nitrogen with a smaller proportion of oxygen — than in a nitric compound; pert, to, containing, producing, or like, niter.— Nitrous oxide gas. A gaseous oxide of nitrogen, used as an anesthetic, esp. D3r dentists; laughing gas. — Ni'trogen, -tro-jen, n. A in gaseous element, without taste, odor, or color, form to ing nearly 4-5ths of common air, and incapable of supporting life; azote. — Ni'tro-glyCerine, -glis'Srin, n. A compound produced Dy the action of a mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acids on glycerine at low temperatures: it detonates when struck the and explodes with great violence. The mixture of nitro-glycerine with silicious earth produces dynathe mite or giant-powder; with gunpowder, or with saw- — dust and nitrate of sodium or barium, litho fract eur; with gunpowder, Coloni a powder; with sawdust, or with sawdust and nitrate of pota ium and some other substances, dual in; with wood fiber, lignose. No, no, adv. Nay, — a word of denial or refusal; not. — n.; pi. Noes, noz. A refusal by use of the word no; a denial: a negative vote; one who votes in the — negative.— No, a. Not any; not one; none.— None, nun, a. and pron. No one; not anything; no; not any. — No'body, -bod-T, n. No person; no one; not anybody; a person of no importance. — Noth''ing, nutb/ing, n. Not anything; no thing; non-existence; nonentity; nihility; not anything of acis count, value, note, etc.; a trifle. — adv. In no deby gree; not at all.— Norway, -ways, -waz, adv. In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise. — No'where, the adv. Not anywhere; not in any place or state. — No'wise, adv. Not in any manner or degree.