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An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.

One who writes on the subject of hymns.

The art or act of composing hymns.

A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra. -- Hy`per*ap`o*phys"i*al, a.

Of or pertaining to ichonography; describing a ground plot.

A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans.

A treatise on fishes.

An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.

A maker of images. Fairholt.

Of or pertaining to iconography.

; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

Same as Ideogram.

nds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself. -- I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written.

The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.

A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.

Of or pertaining to an idiograph.

Descriptive of idols. [R.] Southey.

To place under or beneath. [R.]

A situation or position beneath. Kane.