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A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon, natural causes, or the science of physics.

Mixed mathematics.

The philosophy of nature.

Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.

A yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots.

A combining form from Gr. flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh- eating; sarcology.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the bla; as in vesicoprostatic, vesicovaginal.

A combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively.

Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity. [Obs.]

A combining form (also used adjectively) designating zirconium as an element of certain double compounds; zircono-; as in zircofluoric acid, sodium zircofluoride.

Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent.

and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants.

A co-religion

nded to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico- printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

. Same as Leuco-.

fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

as, SiH4, produced artifically from silicon, and analogous to methane; -- called also silico-methane, silicon hydride, and formerly siliciureted hydrogen.