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volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume. Tomes of fable and of dream. Cowper. A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is not to be found in all the tomes of the casuists. Macaulay.

All small tome, or volume. [R.]

Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.

Tomentose.

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action." Shak.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

Same as Acetimeter. Brande & C.

The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.

A theodolite. Knight.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

A strong scalpel used in the dissection of joints.

A photometer for measuring the brightness of stars.

The determination of the brightness of stars, and also of the sun, moon, and planets. --As`tro*pho`to*met"ric*al (#), a.

An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.

One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.

or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well- bottomed.

An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

fferences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard. [Written also kathetometer.]