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One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.

Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.

Literally, seeing everything; -- a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.

Of or pertaining to a pericarp.

Viewing all around, or on all sides. Periscopic spectacles (Opt.), spectacles having concavo-convex or convexo-concave lenses with a considerable curvature corresponding to that of the eye, to increase the distinctness of objects viewed obliquely.

Discernible. [Obs.] Herbert.

Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.

Perspicacity. [Obs.]

The act of looking sharply. [Obs.] Bailey.

An optical glass; a telescope. [Obs.] Crashaw.

The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.

learly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements. "The purpose is perspicuous." Shak. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ness, n.

o philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind; as, a philanthropic enterprise. -- Phil`an*throp"ic*al*ly, adv.

Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon.

Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet.

Of or pertaining to the photoscope or its uses.

Same as Heliotropic.

Of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy.

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.