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A spirometer; a pneumometer.

The division of Siphonophora which includes the Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophoræ.

Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.

Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidæ, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. -- n.

A summoner. [Obs.]

An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.

Terminology. [R.]

To recover or release from the state of being monopolized. [R.] Unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry. Milton.

common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common…

egard to angels. The same mythology commanded the general consent; the same angelology, demonology. Milman.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl in monosyllable.

ed from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

ning apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

tion. [R.] Shak. To have on the brain, to have constantly in one's thoughts, as a sort of monomania. [Low] Brain box or case, the bony on cartilaginous case inclosing the brain. -- Brain coral, Brain stone coral (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to re…

A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.

Painting in shades of one color; monochrome. Mollett.

piece or point of land, extending beyind the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promonotory; a headland. Cape buffalo (Zoöl.) a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2. -- Cape jasmine, Cape jassamine. See Jasmine. --…

ystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbo…