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A lexicographer. [R.] Southey.

of the ordinary indicator, and this can be traced on the sheet of ground glass, or photographed.

n of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple, under Visual.

One who spells words correctly; an orthographer.

One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

A paragrapher.

One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

Phonographer.

hotograph a group. He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood. Hamerton.

A photographer.

A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.

property or quality; peculiarity. [Obs.] Bacon. We find no mention hereof in ancient zoögraphers, . . . who seldom forget proprieties of such a nature. Sir T. Browne.

A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer. Ptolemaic system (Astron.), the system maintained by Ptolemy, who supposed the earth to be fixed in the center of the universe, with the sun and stars revolving around it. This theory was received for ages, until superseded by the Copernican system.…

In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as. It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal. London Spectator.

ts and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty.

A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc.

alk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam. [Written also raphe.] Gray.

One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes. [Written also skald.] A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. Sir W. Scott…

A selenographer.