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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



23 words match “EYER”

EYER n.
One who eyes another. Gayton.
EYEREACH n.
The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.
CONVEYER n. 2 definitions
One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.
DISOBEYER n.
One who disobeys.
JOURNEYER n.
One who journeys.
LAEMMERGEYER n.
See Lammergeir.
MONEYER n. 2 definitions
An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
OBEYER n.
One who yields obedience. Holland.
PEYER'S GLANDS n.
ymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.
PREYER n.
One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer. Hooker.
STROMEYERITE n.
A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.
AGMINATE; AGMINATED a.
Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
CADMIUM n.
al, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore. Cadmium yellow, a compound of cadmium and sulphur, of an intense yellow color, used as a pigment.
CREDIT v.
edit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one. Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine. Newman.
FLASK n.
e one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc. Erlenmeyer flask, a thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-shaped to allow of safely shaking its contents laterally without danger of spilling; -- so called from Erlenmeyer, a German chemist who invented it. -- Florence flask. Etym:…
HANDER n.
One who hands over or transmits; a conveyer in succession. Dryden.
LAMMERGEIR; LAMMERGEIER n.
sifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. [Written also lammergeyer.]
PHOTOSYNTHESIS n.
nly used as in animal physiology. The details of the process are not yet clearly known. Baeyer's theory is that the carbon dioxide is reduced to carbon monoxide, which, uniting with the hydrogen of the water in the cell, produces formaldehyde, the latter forming various sugars through polymerization. Vines suggests tha…
PRAYER n.
; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body. "Their meek preyere." Chaucer
SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETE n.
similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochæte Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.
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