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Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

A form of cymose inflorescence with all the flowers on one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; -- called also a uniparous helicoid cyme.

A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes.

Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.

Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.

The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.

e, in modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title of casuistry. Stewart. Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule). De Quincey.

See Sentry. [Obs.] Gray.

The measurement of the heads of living persons. -- Ceph`a*lo*met"ric (#),a.

An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

ed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.

See Chlorometry.

The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.