Ur"gen*cy (?), n. [Cf. F. urgence.] The quality or condition of being
urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an
occasion.
Ur"gent (?), a. [L. urgens, p. pr. of urgere: cf. F. urgent. See Urge.]
Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for
immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak.
Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary.
Hooker.
The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out
of the land in haste.
Ex. xii. 33.
Ur"gent*ly, adv. In an urgent manner.
Ur"ger (?), n. One who urges. Beau. & Fl.
U"ric (?), a. [Gr. &?; urine: cf. F. urique. See Urine.] (Physiol.
Chem.) Of or pertaining to urine; obtained from urine; as, uric acid.
Uric acid, a crystalline body, present in small quantity in the urine
of man and most mammals. Combined in the form of urate of ammonia, it
is the chief constituent of the urine of birds and reptiles, forming
the white part. Traces of it are also found in the various organs of
the body. It is likewise a common constituent, either as the free acid
or as a urate, of urinary or renal calculi and of the so- called gouty
concretions. From acid urines, uric acid is frequently deposited, on
standing in a cool place, in the form of a reddish yellow sediment,
nearly always crystalline. Chemically, it is composed of carbon,
hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, C5H4N4O3, and by decomposition yields
urea, among other products. It can be made synthetically by heating
together urea and glycocoll. It was formerly called also lithic acid,
in allusion to its occurrence in stone, or calculus.
||U"rim (?), n. [Heb. &?;rm, pl. of &?;r, fire &?;r light.] A part or
||decoration of the breastplate of the high priest among the ancient
||Jews, by which Jehovah revealed his will on certain occasions. Its
||nature has been the subject of conflicting conjectures.
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Thou shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim.
Ex. xxviii. 30.
And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither
by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.