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A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

One versed in geognosy; a geologist. [R.]

A geologist.

To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist. During midsummer geologized a little in Shropshire. Darwin.

Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.

An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.

The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediæveal Italy.

, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania. "The governor of the town." Shak.

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.

A registrar or recorder; a notary. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women. -- Gyn`e*col"o*gist.

An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.

To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.

A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia. Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be As halcyons brooding on a winter sea. Dryden.

A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell.

Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.

in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.

es of one or more herds of choice breeds of cattle; -- also called herd record, or herd register.

Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic. "Delusions of the hermetic art." Burke. The alchemists, as the people were called who tried to make gold, considered themselves followers of Hermes, and often called themselves Hermetic philosophers. A. B. Buckley.…

A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium. Liddel & Scott.