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Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to electro-chemistry. Ure.

That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

The act of breathing in; inspiration. [R.] The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee.

The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.

Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.

One of the ephemeral flies.

Ephemeral.

for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."

One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist.

One of the ephemeral flies.

Ephemeral. [R.] Burke.

Any external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

Relating to, or causing, erythema.

The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.

One who advocates euhemerism.