Athermancy :: Athermancy (n.) Inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat.

Athermanous :: Athermanous (a.) Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous.

Burghermaster :: Burghermaster (n.) See Burgomaster.

Diathermal :: Diathermal (a.) Freely permeable by radiant heat.

Diathermancy :: Diathermancy (n.) Alt. of Diathermaneit.

Diathermaneity :: Diathermaneity (n.) The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous.

Diathermanism :: Diathermanism (n.) The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat.

Diathermanous :: Diathermanous (a.) Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous.

Electro-thermancy :: Electro-thermancy (n.) That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals..

Fisherman :: Fisherman (n.) One whose occupation is to catch fish.

Fisherman :: Fisherman (n.) A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery..

Haematotherma :: Haematotherma (n. pl.) Same as Hematotherma.

Haematothermal :: Haematothermal (a.) Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.

Hemathermal :: Hemathermal (a.) Warm-blooded; hematothermal.

Hematotherma :: Hematotherma (n. pl.) The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya..

Hematothermal :: Hematothermal (a.) Warm-blooded.

Herma :: Herma (n.) See Hermes, 2..

Hermae :: Hermae (pl. ) of Herm.

Hermaphrodeity :: Hermaphrodeity (n.) Hermaphrodism.

Hermaphrodism :: Hermaphrodism (n.) See Hermaphroditism.

Hermaphrodite :: Hermaphrodite (n.) An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helmi

Hermaphrodite :: Hermaphrodite (a.) Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower..

Hermaphroditic :: Hermaphroditic (a.) Alt. of Hermaphroditica.

Hermaphroditical :: Hermaphroditical (a.) Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; characterized by hermaphroditism.

Hermaphroditism :: Hermaphroditism (n.) The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual..

Homoeothermal :: Homoeothermal (a.) See Homoiothermal.

Homoiothermal :: Homoiothermal (a.) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium..

Hydrothermal :: Hydrothermal (a.) Of or pertaining to hot water; -- used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe..

Isogeothermal :: Isogeothermal (a.) Alt. of Isogeothermi.

Isothermal :: Isothermal (a.) Relating to equality of temperature.

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