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The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.

A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Milton.…

A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.

an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect. Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles. Blair.…

To state or represent hyperbolically. Fotherby.

A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.

A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. Hakewill.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.

The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description. Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit iconisms. Cudworth.

Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; as, an icongraphic encyclopædia.

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind. Shak. This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea. P. Browne.…

The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

ressing no sound, but only an idea. Ideograms may be defined to be pictures intended to represent either things or thoughts. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). You might even have a history without language written or spoken, by means of ideograms and gesture. J. Peile.

Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself. -- I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.

An image or representation of anything. [Obs.] Do her adore with sacred reverence, As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence. Spenser.

A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.