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kind of sandstone.

Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom. [Written also Topheth.] And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom. 2 Kings xxiii. 10.

Same as Toph.

One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.

Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical. [R.] Hare.

An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

A pneumatic reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.

An instrument combining a cinematograph and a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds.

Relating to the blastophore.

That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.

An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.

A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.