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An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.

An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.

An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter. Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol.

Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

oft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers. Smoked the calumet, the Peace pipe, As a signal to the nations. Lowgfellow.

The illumination given by a standard candle at a distance of one meter; -- used as a unit of illumination, except in Great Britain.

An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.

Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.

A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.

The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.

consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard. [Written also kathetome…

Of or pertaining to a cemetery. "Cemeterial cells." [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.

An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.

The measurement of the heads of living persons. -- Ceph`a*lo*met"ric (#),a.