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Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.

Used by way of metonymy. -- Met`o*nym"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.

Of or pertaining to the microcosm. Microcosmic salt (Chem.), a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic- ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metal…

Of or pert. to the microtome or microtomy; cutting thin slices.

r absence, mimic fancy wakes To imitate her. Milton. Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical. W. Wotton.

In an imitative manner.

Of or pertaining to neurotomy.

The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.

See Economical.

Of or pertaining to ornithotomy.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a panorama. Panoramic camera. See under Camera.

Of or pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show. "Pantomimic gesture." Bp. Warburton. -- Pan`to*mim"ic*al*ly, adv.

Having the properties of a parallelogram. [R.]

Same as Patronymic.

erican Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

Fond of polemics or controversy. [R.]

Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.

physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies. Huxley.