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e history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly. Haeckel.

for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obloges himself to full retaliation. Calamy.

sometimes poetically to a father. Shak. Save your reverence, Saving your reverence, an apologetical phrase for an unseemly expression made in the presence of a priest or clergyman. -- Sir reverence, a contracted form of Save your reverence. Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he say. "Sir reverence." Shak. -…

Glauber's salt or salts. See in Vocabulary. -- Haloid salt (Chem.), a simple salt of a halogen acid, as sodium chloride. -- Microcosmic salt. (Chem.). See under Microcosmic. -- Neutral salt. (Chem.) (a A salt in which the acid and base (in theory) neutralize each other. (b) A salt which gives a neutral reaction. --…

nifies. In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Sir W. Scott.

One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer.

A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B. Jonson.

Same as Thallogen.

mes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

most conspicuous, but destitute of vascular tissue, as in Mosses and Scale Mosses. 2. Thallogens. -- Plants without distinct stem and leaves, consisting of a simple or branched mass of cellular tissue, or educed to a single cell. Reproduction effected variously. Divided into Algæ, which contain chlorophyll or its equi…

A combining form from Gr. xy`lon wood; as in xylogen, xylograph.