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The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

d. All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke.

The state of being clogged.

Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More.

Clogging, or having power to clog.

ons; to plot mischief. [Archaic or Colloq.] Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter, Collogue with her again, and all shall be well. Greene. He had been colloguing with my wife. Thackeray.

quid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

The department of astronomy relating to comets.

Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.

One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.

The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

See Conchologist, and Conchology.

The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.

The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

Of or pertaining to craniology.

One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.

The department of science (as of ethnology or archæology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.