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The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.

A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.

A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds.

n the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny. Haeckel.

g straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.

kness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group.

Having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning; -- said of certain words, as al and awl; hair and hare, etc.

The wart hog.

A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.

nt of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny. Haeckel.

The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke." Chaucer.

Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish.

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. -- Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe.…

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

ecording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.

its maturation. In the maturation of ordinary ova two polar bodies are formed, but in parthogenetic ova only one. The first polar body formed is usually larger than the second one, and often divides into two after its separation from the ovum. Each of the polar bodies removes maternal chromatin from the ovum to make ro…

A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones. -- Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface.

s of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. "Porcine cheeks." G. Eliot.