Word Meanings - PROWLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One that prowls. Thomson.

THOMSONIANISM
An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
THOMSON PROCESS
A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.
THOMSONITE
A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
THOMSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n.