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An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.

Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.

Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.

An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance. Specifically: --

Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.

A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.

An odometer for vehicles. Knight.

scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes. -- Tri*chom"a*tous, a.

A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.

Of or pertaining to the lighter division of the Melanochroi, or those races having an olive or yellow complexion and black hair.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

lly of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

y important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

the old Norse mythology, the gods Odin, Thor, Loki, Balder, Frigg, and the others. Their home was called Asgard.

A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [R.] "These home alarms." Shak. Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope.

reated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms. -- The anchor comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts. -- Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. -- The anchor is acockbill, whe…

That which goes before in time; that which precedes. South. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.