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The science which treats of the lungs.

See Penology.

Talkativeness. [R.]

The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.

The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.

A scientific account or discussion of rivers; a treatise on rivers; potamography.

Crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of morphology created by Haeckel. It is essentially stereometric, and relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. See Tectology.

Paleobotany.

Falsehood of speech. Arbuthnot.

Love of empty of empty talk or noise. Coleridge.

uman soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul. Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. Sir W. Hamilton.

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

The art or practice of punning; paronomasia. [R.] Pope.

A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers. Hooper.

The science of blowpipe analysis.

That branch of physical science which treats of the properties, phenomena, or effects of heat; also, a treatise on heat.

The science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.

ithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones. [Written also rhabdology.]

Same as Rabdology.

The science which treats of the nose, and its diseases.