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A writer of chronograms.

Same as Chronogram, 1. [R.]

One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.

Of or pertaining to a chronograph.

A description or record of past time; history. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.

its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. [Written also cenogamy.]

One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings,…

compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.

A demonologist. [R.] Am. Cyc.

A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.

The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C10H5(OH)(NH2)SO3Na used as a developer.

, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.

Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

One who investigates ethnography.

pertaining to ethnography.

In an ethnographical manner.

That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.