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The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. Pope.

Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed. "Cosmic ranges of time." Tyndall.

With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.

Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone.

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

reation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.

eavens and the earth. The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.

science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.

abe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.

Worship paid to the world. Cudworth.

A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.

The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

The art of measuring the world or the universe. Blount.

c force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.