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An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radoimeter. W. Crookes.

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.

An excursion. [Obs.] Florio.

An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.

A pantascopic camera.

One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

A genus of curassows, including the guans.

A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.

A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women. Dunglison.

A general or comprehensive view. [R.]

A small crested passerine bird (Phaïnopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.

An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation.

Any species of Phalaropus and allied genera of small wading birds (Grallæ), having lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also sea goose.

An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope.

See Phantascope.

A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be…

A philanthropist. [Obs.] R. North.

A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [Written also fillipeen and phillippine.]

An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.