Word Meanings - BRONTOGRAPH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms. An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• CHARTIST
  A supporter or partisan of chartism.
• CHART
  1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart. 2. A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion
• TRACHELORRHAPHY
  The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
• TRACHYSPERMOUS
  Rough-seeded. Gray.
• TRACHENCHYMA
  A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.
• 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
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• TRACHELIPOD
  One of the Trachelipoda.
• PHENOMENALISM
  That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.
• TRACHELIDAN
  Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• PHENOMENAL
  Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• CHARTA
  Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• TETRACOLON
  A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.