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The description of joints.

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.

The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.

To entrap; to insnare. [Obs.] Grafton.

The art of writing with or in gold.

One who writers his own life or biography.

Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time. Knight.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.

Autographic. [Obs.]

Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

A description of baths.

The treatment of disease by baths.

An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.