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Relating to compromise. [R.] Chalmers.

published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.

the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.

; imperceptibly. Chalmers.

power of driving out or away; serving to expel. The expulsive power of a new affection. Chalmers.

A festering. [R.] Chalmers.

A going forth; an utterance. A. Chalmers.

A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast. A. Chalmers.

A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind. [Scot.] T. Chalmers.

See Harrier. A. Chalmers.

A kind of ophthalmoscope.

, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Halmaturus, inhabit wooded districts. See Wallaby.

Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.] A. Chalmers.

A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. Moon blindness. (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. -- Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. -- Moon face, a round face like a full moon. -- Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] -- Moon month, a…

Of a pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations. Chalmers.

the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.

Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.

A hospital for orphans. [R.] A. Chalmers.

A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.