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mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath. [Obs.] The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math. Bp. Hall.

See Mathematical.

Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness. -- Math`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in mathematics.

That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.…

See Madder.

The mayweed. Cf. Maghet.

Learning; especially, mathematics. [R.] Pope.

See Trinitarian.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

One who is self-taught. [R.] Young.

Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

on of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.

A warm-blooded animal. [R.]

Warm-blooded; hematothermal. [R]

Of or pertaining to iatromathematicians or their doctrine.

Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat.

A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.