n. See Acolythist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An acolyte. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } (Min.) A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; + &unr_; pillar, support. ] (Anat.) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. anarchiste. ] An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + "isto`s web, tissue: cf. F. anhiste.] (Biol.) Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane. [1913 Webster]

n. One who opposes all government. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Opposed to all human government. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An enemy to monarchial government. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has an antipathy. [ R. ] “Antipathist of light.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. apathiste. ] One who is destitute of feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Apathetic; une motional. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. Same as Bheesty. [ India ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; book + &unr_; a burial. ] One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Thistle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Buddhist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Buddhist, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A calligrapher [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. carline, It., Sp., & Pg., carlina. Said to be so called from the Emperor Charlemagne, whose army is reputed to have used it as a remedy for pestilence. ] (Bot.) A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (Carlina vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. catechista, fr. Gr. ] One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices cerography. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chei`r hand + &unr_; skillful, wise. See Sophist. ] A fortune teller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cryptographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. deipnosofisth`s; dei^pnon a meal + sofisth`s a wise man, sophist. ] One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To clear from sophism or error. [ R. ] Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of the Pentateuch, which are characterized by the use of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An epitapher. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; irritating. ] Relating to erethism.

{ n. } A believer in fetiches. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was by nature a fetichist. H. Holbeach.

{ a. } Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n., a. See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Buddhist priest. See Fo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gymnosofisth`s; gymno`s naked + sofisth`s philosopher; cf. F. gymnosophiste. ] One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. [ Written also heptarch. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Cf. Dan. hys. &unr_;. Cf. Hush, Whist. ] Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. "isto`s tissue + -logy.] Same as Histology. [1913 Webster]