Search the Dictionary

Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.

The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.

employed in arts of design. Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. G. W. Cable.

A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision,…

See Kleptomania.

A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents. [Written also kopek, copec, and copeck.]

An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.

Same as Landlouper.

An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.

An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent color or their relative whiteness.

Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.

An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.

of Leap. [Obs.] And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.

Having ears which lop or hang down.

Leaper; ropedancer. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes. [U.S.]

A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.

Same as Low side window, under Low, a.

A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.

Having long or large petals.