Adopting :: Adopting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adop.

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child..

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions..

Adoptionist :: Adoptionist (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Adoptious :: Adoptious (a.) Adopted.

Adoptive :: Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language..

Autoptic :: Autoptic (a.) Alt. of Autoptica.

Autoptical :: Autoptical (a.) Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience..

Autoptically :: Autoptically (adv.) By means of ocular view, or one's own observation..

Coptic :: Coptic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Copts.

Coptic :: Coptic (n.) The language of the Copts.

Entoptic :: Entoptic (a.) Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye..

Exoptile :: Exoptile (n.) A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

Heteroptics :: Heteroptics (n.) False optics.

Hypoptila :: Hypoptila (pl. ) of Hypoptilu.

Hypoptilum :: Hypoptilum (n.) An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

Hypoptilums :: Hypoptilums (pl. ) of Hypoptilu.

Omphaloptic :: Omphaloptic (n.) An optical glass that is convex on both sides.

Optic :: Optic (a.) The organ of sight; an eye.

Optic :: Optic (a.) An eyeglass.

Optic :: Optic (a.) Alt. of Optica.

Optical :: Optical (a.) Of or pertaining to vision or sight.

Optical :: Optical (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye..

Optical :: Optical (a.) Relating to the science of optics; as, optical works..

Optically :: Optically (adv.) By optics or sight; with reference to optics.

Optician :: Optician (a.) One skilled in optics.

Optician :: Optician (a.) One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.

Optics :: Optics (n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision..

Optigraph :: Optigraph (a.) A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper..

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