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The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.

Alchemy. [Obs.]

The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.

See Alcoholometry.

Cockfighting.

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.

The art of measuring altitudes, or heights.

ne, system, or practice, of Anabaptists. [R.] Thus died this imaginary king; and Anabaptistry was suppressed in Munster. Pagitt.

ion as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West.

The act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind.

Worship paid to angels.

The angle between the tangent to the advancing edge (of an aërocurve) and the line of motion; -- contrasted with angle of trail, which is the angle between the tangent to the following edge and the line of motion.

Man worship.

Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc. Dunglison.

The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off. [Obs. or R.]

The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids.

Silver plate or vessels. [Obs.] Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.

Works of art collectively.