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A mythologist.

Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous. -- Myth`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.

To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

One who, or that which, mythologizes. Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer. Lowell.

narrative; a myth. [R.] May we not ... consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil Geddes.

myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.

A narration of mere fable.

Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives. The mythopoeic fertility of the Greeks. Grote.

Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

-- used specifically to designate any one of a series of carboxyl derivatives, called naphthoic acids.

to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic) odor. Naphthol blue, Naphthol orange, Naphthol yellow (Chem.), brilliant dyestuffs produced from certain complex nitrogenous derivatives of naphthol or naphthoquinone.

A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid.

A building for the shelter of neat cattle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

hristian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent men…

A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.

An oily substance obtained by the distillation of castor oil, recognized as the aldehyde of oenanthylic acid, and hence called also oenanthaldehyde.

The ketone of oenanthic acid.

Having few flowers.

A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs.