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Having a conspicious tongue; -- said of certain reptiles and insects.

A pretender to philosophy. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To play the philosopher; to moralize. [Obs.] Barrow.

Philosophical speculation and discussion. [Obs.] Sir W. Petty.

A philosophaster; a philosopher. [R.] Carlyle.

A philosophical proposition, doctrine, or principle of reasoning. [R.] This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian myths, is a philosopheme. Coleridge.

One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18.

Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; temperate; calm; cool. -- Phil`o*soph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry. Carlyle.

A pretender in philosophy.

Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry. [R.]

To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence. Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well or ill, but philosophize he must. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who philosophizes.

A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained. [Books] of Aristotle and his philosophie. Chaucer. We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school. Locke.

Natural affection, as of parents for their children. [R.]

The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp.

Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.

A phyllostome.

The philosophy of nature.

Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. Owen.