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One skilled in pharmacology.

Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines.

See Pharmacognosis.

A medicine or drug; also, a poison. Dunglison.

A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.

One who sells medicines; an apothecary.

A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.

edicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.

Loving harmony or music.

A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines.

To forearm. [R.]

To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.

Farthest in the rear; last.

The leather-winged bat (Vespertilio murinus). [Written also reermouse.]

An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.

Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally. R. A. Proctor.

Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians und the Poles.

A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawbwrry. See Runner.