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Archimedean :: Archimedean (a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc..

Archimedes :: Archimedes (n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

Blanchimeter :: Blanchimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.

Chime :: Chime (n.) See Chine, n., 3..

Chime :: Chime (n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments..

Chime :: Chime (n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions..

Chime :: Chime (n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound..

Chime :: Chime (n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells..

Chime :: Chime (n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

Chime :: Chime (n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.

Chime :: Chime (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming..

Chime :: Chime (v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony..

Chime :: Chime (v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

Chimed :: Chimed (imp. & p. p.) of Chim.

Chimer :: Chimer (n.) One who chimes.

Chimera :: Chimera (n.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon..

Chimera :: Chimera (n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author..

Chimeras :: Chimeras (pl. ) of Chimer.

Chimere :: Chimere (n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached..

Chimeric :: Chimeric (a.) Chimerical.

Chimerical :: Chimerical (a.) Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects..

Chimerically :: Chimerically (adv.) Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

Isochimenal :: Isochimenal (a.) The same as Isocheimal.

Isochimene :: Isochimene (n.) The same as Isocheim.