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The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

An instrument for ascertaining the susceptibility of a person to hypnotic influences.

The search for the traces of anything. [R.]

Fossil dung of fishes.

A kind of ophthalmoscope.

A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.

h employed in arts of design. Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. G. W. Cable.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.

A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.

A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision,…

An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.

An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.

Of or pertaining to the inspection of the larynx.

One skilled in laryngoscopy.

The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope.

The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents.

h yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also leucophanite.

A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.

Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.

A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green. Watts.