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Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot. [R.]

The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.

The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.

he dull in repartees and points of wit. Addison. The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finished man of the world. Macaulay.

That department of meteorology that treats of the measurement of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.

See Spirometry.

Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air. Dunglison.

The works of a poetaster. [R.]

by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

The doctrine of polygons; an extension of some of the principles of trigonometry to the case of polygons.

An additional or subsequent entry.

Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

Prelaty; prelacy. [Obs.]

The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

The application of the healing art to mental diseases. Dunglison.

The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena. -- Psy`cho*met"ric, a.

Hygrometry.

The determination of the capacity of the lungs.