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24 words match “GOME”

GOME n. 2 definitions
A man. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
GOMER n. 2 definitions
A Hebrew measure. See Homer.
ALGOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try (#), n. -- Al`go*met"ric (#), *met"ric*al (#), a. --Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
ANTILEGOMENA n.
Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…
DIAGOMETER n.
A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power. Nichol.
ERGOMETER n.
A device for measuring, or an instrument for indicating, energy expended or work done; a dynamometer. -- Er`go*met"ric (#), a.
INDIGOMETER n.
An instrument for ascertaining the strength of an indigo solution, as in volumetric analysis. Ure.
INDIGOMETRY n.
The art or method of determining the coloring power of indigo.
LOGOMETRIC a.
Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric. [R.]
OLIGOMEROUS a.
Having few members in each set of organs; as, an oligomerous flower.
PHTHONGOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring vocal sounds. Whewell.
PROLEGOMENARY a.
Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.
PROLEGOMENON n.
A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. D. Stokes (1659). Sir W. Scott.
ACQUAINTANCE n.
A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. Macaulay.
BOUNDING a.
Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
DISLOCATE a.
Dislocated. Montgomery.
GORM n.
Axle grease. See Gome. [Prov. Eng.]
HOMER n.
ure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]
HOMOLOGOUMENA n.
ent which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.
MAKE v.
To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs Dryden.
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