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The mensuration of figures standing on the same base. [Obs.]

A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison.

The art or process of determining he constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.

See Felt, n. [Obs.]

The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. [Archaic] Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.

See Gauntree.

The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott.

.] "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak.

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.

The worship of the earth. G. W. Cox. The Geological Series.

A treatise on this science. Analytical, or Coördinate, geometry, that branch of mathematical analysis which has for its object the analytical investigation of the relations and properties of geometrical magnitudes. -- Descriptive geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the graphic solution of all problems invo…

The race of giants. [R.] Cotgrave.

The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.

The adoration or worship of woman. The sentimental gyneolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin- deep. Lowell.

Same as Hemadrometry.

The measurement of the velocity of the blood.

A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or hæmcytolysis.