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An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by König for testing the quality of musical strings.

An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.

A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.

Anything employed for the observation of light or luminous effects.

A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.

One of a pair of a paired organs.

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Pleuropneumonia.

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

A rain gauge.

ssentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.

An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, or side, opera glass.

A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass. Hutton.

Having a poop; furnished with a poop.

A fish; the ruff. Pope Joan, a game at cards played on a round board with compartments. -- Pope's eye, the gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep. R. D. Blackmore. -- Pope's nose, the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See Uropygium.

A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, etc., also for washing windows. [Cant]

The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity. Shak.

A petty or deputy pope.

d variously explained as "a little puppet," "a little doll," or "a young butterfly." Cf. Popet. [Obs.] So gay a popelote, so sweet a wench. Chaucer.