New Derivative and Etymological Dictionary of Such English Words as Have Their Origin in the Greek and Latin Languages |
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acid æther ancient angle animal apxn arche ava ana belonging bend body breathe bring called cast cause cedo centre church chyle circle class of plants consisting courts of equity denotes dia dia discourse disease divine doctrine dokeo draw duco earth ecliptic eidos equal facio figure flowers fluid gonia grammar Greek Greek alphabet h-edra h-udor heaven hence hermaphrodite inflammation inter jacio kind krino Latin lego letter means medicine mergo metreo mind monos moon motion Moyos nature neut noun one's ovv sun pello peri person phero poem polus pono præ quantity ratio Relating resembling round science which treats seed side signifies skia solid song sound speak speech spirit stamens star stone substance super syllable teneo thauma thing tion traho turn v. a. and n verb verto word write Xoyos logos ypapw grapho αντι λογος
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Page 125 - ... a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Plesiosaurus ; a genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years amidst the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the...
Page 36 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Page 87 - Hyperbola, a section of a cone made by a plane, so that the axis of the section inclines to the opposing leg of the cone, which in the parabola is parallel to it, and in the ellipse intersects it...
Page 104 - Synecdoche is the rhetorical figure by which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part Quintilian Inst, viii., 6, 19.
Page 340 - Degree, called also the niiu-heaven, is the highest point, or yOlh degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from its intersection with the horizon at any time ; and its altitude is equal to the angle that the ecliptic makes with the horizon at their intersection, or equal to the distance of the zenith from the pole of the ecliptic.
Page 133 - When applied to the pulse, means an irregularity of pulsation ; the beating of the artery ceasing for two, three, or four seconds, and then returning to beat regularly for a short time, which regularity is succeeded by another interval...
Page 166 - ... as a line by the motion of a point ; a surface by the motion of a line ; and a solid by the motion of a surface.
Page 219 - THE stains of ink on cloth, paper, or wood, may be removed by almost all acids, but those acids are to be preferred which are least likely to injure the texture of the stained substance. The muriatic acid, diluted with five or six times its weight of water, may be applied to the spot, and after a minute or two may be washed off, repeating the application as often as may be found necessary. But the vegetable acids are attended with less risk, and are equally effectual.
Page 276 - NUTA'TION, Ast., Lat., nutare, to shake, or vibrate. The nutation of the Earth's axis is a kind of vibratory motion, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is sub'ected to a slight variation.
Page 111 - Crucibles. Vessels of indispensable use In chemistry in the various operations of fusion by heat. They are made of baked earth, or metal, in the form of an inverted cone.