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A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

A treatise on colors

A treatise on colors.

A description of, or a treatise concerning, comets.

The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

A treatise on crime or the criminal population. -- Crim`i*nol"o*gist (-j, n.

A discourse or treatise on crystallization.

A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations. Sir W. Scott.

A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.

An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin.

A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] Milton.

Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.

The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.

A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc.

ct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper. Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.

ts, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.

ct into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.

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

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.