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See Zymic, Zymological, etc.

reatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation. [Written also zumology.]

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

rench Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

Pertaining to acology.

; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

Pertaining to adenology.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

A description of the air or atmosphere; aërology.

Of or pertaining to aërology.

One versed in aërology.

In the old Norse mythology, the gods Odin, Thor, Loki, Balder, Frigg, and the others. Their home was called Asgard.

Pertaining to ætiology; assigning a cause. -- Æ`ti*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed or engaged in agriology.

Pertaining to agrostology.

One skilled in agrostology.

hods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.