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The science of names or of their classification.

An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.

The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.

Onomatopoetic. Whitney.

Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.

Onomatopoeia.

See Onomancy.

Metalorganic.

To exceed in venom.

An instrument for ascertaining the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, or in any gaseous mixture. Faraday.

ertaining to, or used for, the determination of the amount of ozone; of or relating to ozonometry.

The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.

Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining. [R.] We want no half gods, panomphean Joves. Mrs. Browning.

An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial. Brande & C.

Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.

A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.

Paronomasia. [R.] B. Jonson.

decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy. Arbuthnot.