Word Meanings - SPECULUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations. (more info) 1. A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archæology.

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An instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations. (more info) 1. A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archæology. 2. A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below.

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• FACILITATION
  The act of facilitating or making easy.
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• DILATIVE
  Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• ROMANY
  1. A gypsy.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• DILATORILY
  With delay; tardily.
• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• ROMANISH
  Pertaining to Romanism.
• LIGHT-ARMED
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• LIGHTERAGE
  1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• LIGHT-O'-LOVE
  1. An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak. 2. Hence: A light or wanton woman. Beau. & Fl.
• OPHTHALMOLOGY
  The science which treats of the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• SELENOLOGY
  That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon. -- Sel`e*no*log"i*cal, a.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• POENOLOGY
  See PENOLOGY
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
• HYGIOLOGY
  A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.
• AITIOLOGY
  See ÆTIOLOGY
• ICONOLOGY
  The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• HISTIOLOGY
  See HISTOLOGY
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called
• HEXICOLOGY
  The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally. St. George Mivart.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.