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A composition consisting of five verses.

The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also peschito.]

One who is versed in petrology.

One versed in philately; one who collects postage stamps.

One versed in philology.

One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18.

Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; temperate; calm; cool. -- Phil`o*soph"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.

One versed or skilled in phonography.

One versed in phonology.

One versed in phonotypy.

One versed in phrenology; a craniologist.

One versed in physics.

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.

One versed in phytotomy.

ized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles. Pityriasis versicolor Etym: [NL.] (Med.), a parasitic disease of the skin, characterized by the development of reddish or brownish patches.

One versed in pneumatology.

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.