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The branch of botany which treats of water plants.

The science which treats of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc. -- Hy`e*to*log"ic*al, a.

A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health. [R.]

The science which treats of the fluids of the body.

hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology.

A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.

A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.

Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.

Same as Ichnology. Hitchcock.

The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.

The natural history of fishes; that branch of zoölogy which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

The science of ideas. Stewart.

Entomology. [Obs.]

That branch of physics which treats of the laws of motion, or of moving bodies.

The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones. Krauth-Fleming.

Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of the larynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases of the larynx.

A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.

The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.

The science which treats of lichens.