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A rhetorician; a careful writer. [Obs.] If a rethor couthe fair endite. Chaucer.

Rhetoric. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root.

considered collectively. It was supposed he felt no call to anu expedition that might sainthood. Sir W. Scott.

Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers. (Pici).

Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.

ackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.

A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.

One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.

See Spathic.

Spathose.

Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.

The office or position of a stadtholder.

See Pneumatograph.

external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.

s the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.

Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope. -- Steth`o*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.

One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.

The art or process of examination by the stethoscope.

An orthoceras.