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hysician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.

Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by che…

Cloth of silver or of gold. [R.]

A hit or thrust. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.

Between, or within, the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennæ of some insects.

Between the trochanters of the femur.

A depression, or inward sinking of parts.

A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the Bell-Krupp process.

A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.

Theft; larceny. [Obs.]

The lark. [Old Eng. & Scot.] [Written also lavrock.] Gower.

Same as Laverock.

A lark. [Scot.]

A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.

The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.

Having a large head.

A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.

he great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.