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To perform the office of midwife. [Obs.] "Nature does obstetricate." Evelyn.

The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it.

Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.

Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center. Paracentric curve (Math.), a curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or center, by equal distances in equal times; -- called…

Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.

Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye.

Pert. to, or capable of developing, photo-electricity.

Of or pertaining to photometry, or to a photometer.

Of or pertaining to planimetry.

See Pluviometrical.

Of or pertaining to a pluviometer; determined by a pluviometer.

The Infusoria. [Obs.]

Consisting both of prose and verse. Clarke.

Of or pertaining to the psychrometer or psychrometry.

Pertaining to, or obtained by, the pyrometer; as, pyrometrical instruments; pyrometrical measurements.

Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained saccharimetry.

Of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained by stereometry. -- Ste`re*o*met"ric*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.

Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry.