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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.

The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.

The science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies. Shipley.

Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.

The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.

That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.

The science which relates to mammals or the Mammalia. See Mammalia.

Mastology. See Mammalogy.