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Pertaining to gastromony.

Pertaining to gerocomy. Dr. John Smith.

Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. G. R. Lewes. Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.…

Gnomonical. Boyle.

In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.

A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.

One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.

Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the dynamical action of water of a liquid; of or pertaining to water power. Hydrodynamic friction, friction produced by the viscosity of a liquid in motion.

A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite. Hydromica schist (Min.), a mica schist characterized by the presence of hydromica. It often has a silky luster and almost soapy feel.

Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

compatible; adverse; repugnant. We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments. Burke.

The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness. [R.]

In an inimical manner.

To flash or shine between or among. [R.] Blount.

A shining between or among. [R.] Smart.

Pertaining to, or performed by, lithotomy.

Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms. Logarithmic curve (Math.), a curve which, referred to a system of rectangular coördinate axes, is such that the ordinate of any point will be the logarithm of its abscissa. -- Logarithmic spiral, a spiral curve such that radii drawn from its pole or eye at equa…

By the use of logarithms.