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One who practiced phlebotomy.

The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.

Same as Physiognomy, 1.

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.

One versed in phytotomy.

A polemic. [R.]

One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.

A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.

The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.

A follower of Pierre Ramé, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

A reformer.

A rhymer; a rhymester. Johnston.

A Roman Catholic. [R.] South.

A schemer. [R.] Waterland.

A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.

Puddled steel. [U. S. ]

A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.

Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.

One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary. Sir E. Dering.

One who collects or explains synonyms.