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A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchæmia.

The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.

See Maim, and Mayhem.

See Mathematical.

Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness. -- Math`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in mathematics.

That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.…

The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim.

Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.

A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f

Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.

The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.

Lasting but one day.

The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours.

See Hemoglobin.

Of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc. Max Müller.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [R.] Chalmers.

A philomath.

.] This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian myths, is a philosopheme. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.