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One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. [R.]

The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.

The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture. Evelyn.

Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese.

A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate.

A chief magistrate in rural districts. He was replaced in 1827 by "resident magistrates."

Having a broad beak. Sir T. Browne.

The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.

A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms.

One of the Longirostres.

Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres.

A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.

A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.

One of a group of mammals having a small size as a typical characteristic. It includes the lower orders, as the Insectivora, Cheiroptera, Rodentia, and Edentata.

Having a typically small size; of or pertaining to the microsthenes.

The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.

Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.

Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.

Pertaining to parostosis.