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A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.

One who presents a petition.

A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.

Pythoness; witch. [Obs.]

A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.

Colloq. for Telephone.

An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.

Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation. Phonetic spelling, spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; -- contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.

In a phonetic manner.

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

The science which treats of vocal sounds. J. Peile.

One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.

The act, art, or process of representing sounds by phonetic signs.

To represent by phonetic signs. Lowell.

rystalline substance, having a geraniumlike odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from certain camphor compounds.

due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

A nephoscope registering by photography, commonly consisting of a pair of cameras used simultaneously.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of rays of light. A. G. Bell.

e thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite. [Written also phragmacone.]