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An epigrammatist. Jer. Taylor.

One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer. Milton.

One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.

Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression. -- Eu`phe*mis"tic*al*ly, adv.

A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

A gastromomer.

The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem"ic*al (#), a. --Ge`o*chem"ist (#), n.

A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.

One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.

One liable to the fault of heterophemy.

ian who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.

Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by che…

One skilled in ichthyotomy.

One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.

One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.

operties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.

ortions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.

One who is skilled in or practices microtomy.