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A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.

Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879.

ne and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.

orting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.

e of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.

Of or pertaining to Auer von Welsbach or the incandescent gas burner invented by him. -- Welsbach burner, a burner in which the combustion of a mixture of air and gas or vapor is employed to heat to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a "stocking" in a solution of nitrates…

A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.

e, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp; -- so called after the inventor.

Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. [Obs.] Camden.

A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.