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Herpetology.

Pertaining to the last or final things.

The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.

A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene.

To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. [Obs.] Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. Beau.

One who extols; one who praises.

Praise. [Obs.] Shak.

See Fridstol. Fuller.

A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.] [Obs.]

Ghost lore. [R.] It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.

An account or description of giants.

Of or pertaining to glottology.

A linguist; a philologist.

The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.

One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.

Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate.

See Hæmatoin.

The science which treats of the blood. Same as Hematology.

Dissolution of the red blood corpuscles with diminished coagulability of the blood; hæmolysis. -- Hæm`a*to*lyt"ic (#), a.

See Hæmocytotrypsis.