a. Good or used against bubonic plague; as, antibubonic serum, obtained from immunized horses; antibubonic vaccine, a sterilized bouillon culture of the plague bacillus; antibubonic measures. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Bonnibel. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the sleek, jolly landlord in Farquhar's comedy of “The Beaux' Stratagem.” ] An innkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bonus good + -form. ] Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. bonus good + -fy: cf. F. bonifier. ] To convert into, or make, good. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being bony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Senses 1 and 2 fr. 1st Bone, sense 3 fr. 3d Bone. ] 1. The clearing of bones from fish or meat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manuring of land with bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bonitoes [ Sp. & Pg. bonito, fr. Ar. bainīt and bainīth. ] [ Often incorrectly written bonita. ] (Zool.) 1. A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. any of a variety of scombroid fishes of the genera Sarda or Euthynnus, with a size intermediate between those of the smaller mackerels and the tunas. It is applied especially to the skipjack tuna (Euthynnus pelamis, syn. Katsuwonus pelamis, formerly Sarda Mediterranea, also called skipjack) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (Sarda Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. These are large and active fishes, of a blue color above and silver below, with black oblique stripes. MW10 [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern part of the United States and the West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) a severe and often fatal disease caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis), transmitted to man by the bite of fleas, themselves usually infected by biting infected rodents. It is characterized by the formation of buboes, most notably on the groin and armpits, and accompanied by weakness and high fever. The disease was known as the black death, and was responsible for several devastating plagues throughout the middle ages. When lungs became infected, the disease was called the pneumonic plague. It is still found occasionally in poor areas of undeveloped countries but is rare in developed countries. [ PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. carbonique. See Carbon. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carbonic acid (Chem.), an acid HO.CO.OH, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. In common language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances, or other substances containing carbon. It is formed in the explosion of fire damp in mines, and is hence called after damp; it is also know as choke damp, and mephitic air. Water will absorb its own volume of it, and more than this under pressure, and in this state becomes the common soda water of the shops, and the carbonated water of natural springs. Combined with lime it constitutes limestone, or common marble and chalk. Plants imbibe it for their nutrition and growth, the carbon being retained and the oxygen given out. --
Carbonic oxide (Chem.), a colorless gas, CO, of a light odor, called more correctly carbon monoxide. It is almost the only definitely known compound in which carbon seems to be divalent. It is a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon, and is an abundant constituent of water gas. It is fatal to animal life, extinguishes combustion, and burns with a pale blue flame, forming carbon dioxide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A carbide. [ R. ]

a. [ Carbon + -ferous. ] Producing or containing carbon or coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carboniferous age (Geol.), the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegetation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. --
Carboniferous formation (Geol.), the series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or Carboniferous period. See the Diagram under Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as carbonization. [ PJC ]

n. [ Carbon + -ite. ] 1. An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpeter, sulphur, and kieselguhr. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. carbonisation. ] 1. The act or process of carbonizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens).
Syn. -- carbonisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Carbonized p. pr. & vb. n. Carbonizing. ] [ Cf. F. carboniser. ] 1. To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dambonite. ] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decarbonized p. pr. & vb. n. Decarbonizing. ] To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. --
Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. di- + carbonic. ] (Chem.) Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl groups or radicals; as, oxalic acid is the simplest dicarbonic acid. In the latter sense, synonymous with dicarboxylic; as, succinic acid is a dicarboxylic acid. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who works in ebony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ebonized p. pr. & vb. n. Ebonizing. ] To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. im- not + L. bonitas goodness. ] Lack of goodness. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mono- + carbonic. ] (Chem.) Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid. The more common term is monocarboxylic. Contrasted with dicarboxylic, tricarboxylic, etc. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ Ortho- + carbonic. ] (Chem.) Designating a complex ether, C.(OC2H5)4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid, C.(OH)4. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Metal.) To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog . . .
Where armies whole have sunk. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Serbonian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist. Bale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sorboniste. ] A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The hypothetical radical SbH4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n. The Subcarboniferous period or formation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Thio- + carbonic. ] (Chem.) Same as Sulphocarbonic. [ 1913 Webster ]