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Of or pertaining to the macrocosm. Tylor.

An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.

A process by which copper matte is treated by passing through it a blast of air, to oxidize and remove sulphur. It is analogous in apparatus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron. So called from Pierre Manhès, a French metallurgist, who invented it.

Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .

Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvæ of certain marine annelids.

An instrument for measuring colors.

Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to Ant: megacephalic.

A chronoscope.

A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.

Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci. Nature.

A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.

sus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the microcosm. Microcosmic salt (Chem.), a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic- ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metal…

Description of man as a microcosm.

A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.

Pertaining, or suited, to the audition of small sounds; fitted to assist hearing.

n comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith. J. P. Cooke.

opic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.

One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anæmia.

Wrong or irregular proceding.