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delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.

One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1…

A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.

Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order. -- Gen`e*a*log"ic*al*ly, adv. Genealogical tree, a family lineage or genealogy drawn out under the form of a tree and its branches.

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows anot…

That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.

Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth.

One versed in the science of geology.

To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist. During midsummer geologized a little in Shropshire. Darwin.

tious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs. The science of bacteriology was developed after this theory had been established.

One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.

Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock.

A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches.

Of or pertaining to glossology.

One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.

Of or pertaining to glottology.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology.

hilosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

ounsels go. Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. Sir W. Scott.