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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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581 words match “GIST”

ARCHAEOLOGIST n.
One versed in archæology; an antiquary. Wright.
AREOPAGIST n.
See Areopagite.
ASSYRIOLOGIST n.
One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.
ATMOLOGIST n.
One who is versed in atmology.
BACTERIOLOGIST n.
One skilled in bacteriology.
BATTOLOGIST n.
One who battologizes.
BIBLIOPEGIST n.
A bookbinder.
BIBLIOPEGISTIC a.
Pertaining to the art of binding books. [R.] Dibdin.
BIOLOGIST n.
A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
BROMATOLOGIST n.
One versed in the science of foods.
BRYOLOGIST n.
One versed in bryology.
CAMPANOLOGIST n.
One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.
CARPOLOGIST n.
One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
CASH REGISTER n.
A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.
CETOLOGIST a.
One versed in cetology.
CHIROLOGIST n.
One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.
CHRONOLOGIST; CHRONOLOGER n.
s and transactions; one skilled in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.
CLIMATOLOGIST n.
One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
CONCHOLOGIST n.
One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.
CONCHYLIOLOGIST; CONCHYLIOLOGY n.
See Conchologist, and Conchology.
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