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Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist. The distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll. Byron.

An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.

The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.

a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.

An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.

Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis (Chem.), that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the analysis of gases by volume, as by the eudiometer.…

Volumetric. -- Vol`u*met"ric*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to volume or volumes. Specifically: --

One who writes a volume; an author. [Obs.] Milton.

A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.

A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. [Obs.]

The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. Dunglison.

Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.