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An etymologist.

A geologist.

An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.

Of the nature of a halogen.

A servant who called out the hours. [Obs.]

A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.

An entomologist. [Obs.]

A martyrology. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Derived from, or pertaining to, the bone marrow.

A mythologist.

One versed in osteology; an osteologist.

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

A philologist. Burton.

A phonologist.

A phrenologist.

The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism. -- Phy*lo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

A physiologist.

A halogen. [Obs.]

One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algæ, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf.…