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An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.

The right of the youngest born. Mozley & W.

An account or description of rivers; potamology.

First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.

Of or pertaining to primogeniture. [R.]

The first ancestor; a forefather.

, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue. Blackstone.

The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke.

A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.

The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.

Same as Pulmonata.

Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusæ.

A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.

The trace or record of an earth tremor, made by means of a seismograph.

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

See Seismograph.

A conceptacle of certain lichens, which contains spermatia.