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An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent color or their relative whiteness.

s note forts, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors. Fuller.

A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language. [India]

small pittance of learning they received." Swift. The inconsiderable pittance of faithful professors. Fuller.

A follower of Pierre Ramé, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

Of or pertaining to a king; royal. Regius professor, an incumbent of a professorship founded by royal bounty, as in an English university.

t or furtherance of anything by authority to it; confirmation; approbation. The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony. I. Watts.

One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.

One who, or that which, stings. Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen.

rt; to pay. Evelyn. It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to stipendiate professors. I. Taylor.

Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.

One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

t is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.

one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of church…

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Shak.