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One who plays upon a reed or pipe. [Obs.] Blount.

To curl or friz, as the hair. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] burton.

A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.

One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

sumed 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 Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry.

h of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.

One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

One in subjection to a demon, or to demons. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

One who marries the second time.

The writer of Deuteronomy.

One who dichotomizes. Bacon.

One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. Hammond.

ho would resolve matter into centers of force may be said to constitute the school of dynamists. Ward (Dyn. Sociol. ).

h frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. "Economists even to parsimony." Burke.

That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

To infold, as in a mist.

One who practices entomotomy.