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To move away; to go off. [Prov. Eng. or Local, U. S.]

A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material. [Scot.]

having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck. Great, or Grand, Mogul, the sovereign of the empire founded in Hindostan by the Mongols under Baber in the sixteenth century. Hence, a very important personage; a lord; -- sometimes only mogul. Dryden.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

roducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

A record made by an anemograph.

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight.

Produced by an anemograph; of or pertaining to anemography.

The art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph.

An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.

Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.

A combination of cardiograph and shygmograph.

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.

An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

An integrating anemometer.

The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone.

One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.

ation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.