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One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

Characterized by division into four parts.

One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.

Belief in theosophy. Murdock.

One addicted to theosophy. The theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God, or of the works of God, which has not reason, but an inspiration of his own, for its basis. R. A. Vaughan.

Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.

As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned. When they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would c…

Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. Blessed thistle, Carduus benedictus, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. -- Bull thistle, Cnicus lanceolatus, the common large thistle of neglected pastures. -- Canada thistle, Cnicu…

Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.

A kind of carriage. See Whiskey. Southery.

A topographer.

Tough in a slight degree.

ioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.

A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.

See Trochiscus. [Obs.] Bacon.

Any theory which conceives chance as an objective reality; esp., a theory of evolution which considers that variation may be purely fortuitous.

Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine. -- Un`so*phis"ti*ca`ted*ness, n.

One practiced in uranography.

A game at cards; whist. [Obs.] Taylor (1630).

One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.