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An instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action.

Pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action.

To interfere; to intermeddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

The mensuration of figures standing on the same base. [Obs.]

Epithumetical. [Obs.]

Pertaining to sexual desire; sensual. Sir T. Browne.

An instrument for measuring energy in ergs.

ice for measuring, or an instrument for indicating, energy expended or work done; a dynamometer. -- Er`go*met"ric (#), a.

An instrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed.

Same as Æsthesiometer.

An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; -- so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.

Of or pertaining to a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results.

e art or process of determining he constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.

An hexameter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.

The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.

See Fumet. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.