Search the Dictionary

A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.

A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common. H. Spencer. -- Het`a*ris"tic, a.

The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness. The heyday in the blood is tame. Shak. In the heyday of their victories. J. H. Newman.

One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them. And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years of races. Lowell.

and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.

nt which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.

al worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity. If she have forgot Honor and virtue. Shak. Godlike erect, with native honor clad. Milton.

A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.

The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment.

.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.

s to be raised. When the rush of water through the main pipe d shuts the valve at a, the momentum of the current thus suddenly checked forces part of it into the air chamber b, and up the pipe c, its return being prevented by a valve at the entrance to the air chamber, while the dropping of the valve a by its own weigh…

art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.

A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc. Nichol.

branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.

k ball, cooled by the evaporation of the ether within, is soon covered with dew; at this moment, the inclosed thermometer gives the dew-point, and this, compared with the reading of one in the air, determines the humidity.

nerally denoting connection with the hyoid bone or arch; as, hyoglossal, hyomandibular, hyomental, etc.

A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.