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One versed in bryology.

One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. "Studious cabalists." Swift.

is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer.

One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.

One versed in cetology.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

. being accounted a clerk." Blackstone. He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. Burke.

One versed in, or who studies, climatology.

One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.

e method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impres…

One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.

One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

m each contract new strength and light. Pope. Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high statiSwift.

To dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] "Controversed causes." Hooker.

Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in. Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. Dryden. he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope. Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper.

before a thing. Companions That do converse and waste the time together. Shak. We had conversed so often on that subject. Dryden.

Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond.

One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.