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Same as Hæmatachometry.

The invocation or worship of saints.

Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.

The act of harvesting; also, that which is harvested. Swinburne.

Sun worship. See Sabianism.

The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer.

The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen. "The Helotry of Mammon." Macaulay.

act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; hæmotachometry.

The worship of saints or sacred things. [R.] Coleridge.

art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions. "The horometry of antiquity." Sir T. Browne.

A hostelry; an inn or lodging house. [Obs.] Marlowe.

The art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.

That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively.

Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by che…

Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols. Layard.

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.

Idiocy. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods. His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Milton.