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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

Antiscorbutic.

One who holds lands by emphyteusis.

Full of shoots. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.

cording to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.

Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting. [Obs.]

Serving to assist childbirth. Cudworth.

Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.

In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affais.

he art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly, adv. Pharmaceutical chemistry, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances.

Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand.

Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms. -- Scor*bu"tic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

e heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

fathoms (720 feet), or about 100 fathoms (600 feet, an approximation to one tenth of a nautical mile). -- Cable tier. (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed. (b) A coil of a cable. -- Sheet cable, the cable belonging to the sheet anchor. -- Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cable…