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One versed in cetology.

The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.

One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrallly, near together.

Relating to chirology.

One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.

bstitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

One who bandies words or is very argunentative. [Jocular] Shak.

ver the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

A treatise on colors.

Same as Chronologist.

Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables. Raleigh. -- Chron`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

Of or pertaining to climatology.

One versed in, or who studies, climatology.