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e quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone. [Obs.] Shak.

An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

See Hæmacytometer.

A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.

A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.

Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.

One of the Holostomata.

The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.

An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction.

Same as Cathetometer.

An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.

An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus.

An instrument for performing laryngotomy.

Inflammation of the pia mater or of the arachnoid membrane.

A stone so formed by nature as to appear as if cut by art.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.

ining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.

An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.