To play the philosopher; to moralize.

Philosophical speculation and discussion.

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

A philosophical proposition, doctrine, or principle of reasoning.

One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.

Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; temperate; calm; cool.

Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry.

A pretender in philosophy.

Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.

To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.

One who philosophizes.

Literally, the love of, inducing the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.

Natural affection, as of parents for their children.

Fond of the arts.

To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.

A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

Pythoness; witch.

The face or visage.

Inflammation of a vein.

A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.

A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

One who practiced phlebotomy.

To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.

A mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii.

The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.

One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs.

Watery.

Phlegmatic.

In a phlegmatic manner.

Phlegmatically.

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as, phlegmonous pneumonia.

See Fleam.

A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum pratense), which is highly valued for hay; cat's-tail grass.

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

A believer in the existence of phlogiston.

Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.

Phlogistic.

To combine phlogiston with; -- usually in the form and sense of the p. p. or the adj.; as, highly phlogisticated substances.

The act or process of combining with phlogiston.

The former hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element; it is now known to be nonexistent.

Causing inflammation.

A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.

Inflammation of external parts of the body; erysipelatous inflammation.

Of or pertaining to phlogosis.

A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the decomposition of phloretin.

A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine.

A bitter white crystalline glucoside extracted from the root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, plum, etc.

A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]

A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.

A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.

A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers.

Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.

Any irrational and persistent fear, whether of a situation, activity, or object; a phobia typically leads to a strong desire to avoid the object of the phobia.

A person suffering from a phobia.

A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.

Any species of Phoca; a seal.

Pertaining to seals.

Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.

See Delphin.

Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.

One of the Phocodontia.

A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.

The pewee, or pewit.

Apollo; the sun god.

Of or pertaining to Ph/nica. A native or inhabitant of Ph/nica.

See Phenicious.

A genus of birds which includes the flamingoes.

A genus of Old World thrushes.

Same as Phenix.

Any species of Pholas.

Pholad.

Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadid/. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.

A genus of straggling herbs of the southwestern U.S.

Of or relating to the voice; as, phonal structure.

Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.

An instrument that converts sound into signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; a telephone; as, I talked to him on the phone.

To get or try to get into communication with, using a telephone; as, I phoned him this morning.

A radio or telephone program, or part of a program, during which the audience participates by telephone.

An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.

One of a small set of speech sounds that are used by and distinguished by the speakers of a particular language. They are combined into morphemes, words, and sentences.

Of or pertaining to a phoneme; as, phonemic analysis.

The study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes.

Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.

In a phonetic manner.

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

The science which treats of vocal sounds.

One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.

The act, art, or process of representing sounds by phonetic signs.

To represent by phonetic signs.

Something or someone that is phoney.

Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.

Same as Phonetics.

A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly transparent wings.

Reflecting sound.

A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.

Of or pertaining to a phonogram.

A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

One versed or skilled in phonography.

Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography.

In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.

Phonographer.

A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.

A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha/ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.

A phonologist.

Of or pertaining to phonology.

One versed in phonology.

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

An instrument for measuring sounds, as to their intensity, or the frequency of the vibrations.

An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.

A speaking machine.

An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by K/nig for testing the quality of musical strings. An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.