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The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. [R. & Obs.] " Mere pulpitry." Milton.

resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers.

Putrid. [Obs.] Marston.

The worship of fire. Young.

The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.

Quixotism; visionary schemes.

A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

The use of the radiometer, or the measurement of radiation. -- Ra`di*o*met"ric (#), a.

A second or new entry; as, a reëntry into public life.

The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.

To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

Same as Revestiary. [Obs.]

The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.

The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.

The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.

Salimetry.

A psaltery. [Obs.] Dryden.

The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coördinates of space.

Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. Dryden. Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.