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One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.

The principles of the high-church party.

A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [Written also homoepathist.]

A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds. See Isomorphism.

Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.

ossession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism.

One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

One who believes in hylopathism.

The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum. [Written also hyporachis.]

The property or state of being indehiscent.

Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.

See Enfranchise.

A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.

Isomorphism between the two forms severally of two dimorphous substances.

Isomorphism between substances that are isomeric.

of form between substances of unlike composition, which is more properly called homoeomorphism.

Isomorphism between the three forms, severally, of two trimorphous substances.

ly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceæ, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

A lexicographer. [R.] Southey.