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One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

A paragrapher.

Of or relating to a paragraphist. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

Phonographer.

A photographer.

A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.

An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.

A selenographer.

One skilled in siderography.

A sphenographer.

One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.

A stenographer.

One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

A topographer.

One practiced in uranography.

A zoögrapher.

One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.

See Aphis.

popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. Bean aphis (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Aphis fabæ) which infests the bean plant. -- Bean fly (Zoöl.), a fly found on bean flowers. -- Bean goose (Zoöl.), a species of goose (Anser segetum). -- Bean weevil (Zoöl.), a small weevil that in…

A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.