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One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.

A stenographer.

One who sympathizes; a sympathizer. [R.] Coleridge.

An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.

One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

Characterized by division into four parts.

One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.

One addicted to theosophy. The theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God, or of the works of God, which has not reason, but an inspiration of his own, for its basis. R. A. Vaughan.

Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.

Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. Blessed thistle, Carduus benedictus, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. -- Bull thistle, Cnicus lanceolatus, the common large thistle of neglected pastures. -- Canada thistle, Cnicu…

Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.

A topographer.

Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine. -- Un`so*phis"ti*ca`ted*ness, n.

One practiced in uranography.

Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet. "So whist and dead a silence." Sir J. Harrington. The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed. Milton.

uth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves the task of day, And, trudging homeward, whistles on the way. Gay.

A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.

One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.

The American golden-eye.

The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.