Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PHOS'PHUR-ET, n.

A combination of phosphorus with a base; as, phosphuret of iron or copper. – Hooper.

PHOSPHUR-ET-ED, a.

Combined with phosphorus.

PHO'TI-ZITE, n.

A mineral, an oxyd of manganese. – Phillips.

PHO-TO-GEN'IC, a. [Gr. φως, φωτος, light, and γενναω, to generate.]

Producing light, or converting black into white. The word is applied to the drawing or taking of a picture by means of the action of the sun's rays on a chemically prepared ground.

PHO-TO-GRAPH'IC, or PHO-TO-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to photography.

PHO-TO-GRAPH'IC, a.

Relating to photography, or the art of making drawings by the agency of sun-light. [1841 Addenda only.]

PHO-TOG'RA-PHIST, n.

One who practices photography.

PHO-TOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. φως, φωτος, light, and γραφω, to describe.]

The art or practice of fixing images of the camera obscura on plates of copper, covered with a thin coating of silver. [See Heliography, in Addenda.] – Daguerre.

PHO-TO-LOG'IC, or PHO-TO-LOG'IC-AL, a. [See Photology.]

Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.

PHO-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. φως, light, and λογος, discourse.]

The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature and phenomena. – Mitchill.

PHO-TOM'E-TER, n. [Gr. φως, light, and μετρον, measure.]

An instrument for measuring the relative intensities of light. – Rumford. Leslie.

PHO-TO-MET'RIC, or PHO-TO-MET'RIC-AL, a.

Pertaining to or made by a photometer.

PHO-TOM'E-TRY, n. [Gr. φως and μετρον.]

The science which treats of the measurement of light.

PHO-TO-PHO'BI-A, or PHO'TO-PHO-BY, n. [Gr. φως and φοβεω.]

A dread or intolerance of light; a symptom of internal ophthalmy. – Brande.

PHRASE, n. [s as z. Gr. φρασις, from φραζω, to speak.]

1. A short sentence or expression. A phrase may be complete, as when it conveys complete sense, as humanum est errare, to err is human; or it may be incomplete, as when it consists of several words without affirming any thing, or when the noun and the verb do the office of a noun only; as, that which is true, that is, truth, satisfies the mind. – Encyc.
2. A particular mode of speech; a peculiar sentence or short idiomatic expression; as, a Hebrew phrase; an Italian phrase.
3. Style; expression. Thou speak'st / In better phrase. – Shak.
4. In music, any regular symmetrical course of notes which begin and complete the intended expression. – Busby.

PHRASE, v.t.

To call; to style; to express in words or in peculiar words. These suns, / For so they phrase them. – Shak.

PHRAS-ED, pp.

Styled; expressed in peculiar words.

PHRASE-LESS, a.

Not to be expressed or described.

PHRA-SE-O-LOG'IC, or PHRA-SE-O-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Peculiar in expression; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

PHRA-SE-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. φρασις, phrase, and λεγω, to speak.]

1. Manner of expression; peculiar words used in a sentence; diction.
2. A collection of phrases in a language. – Encyc.

PHRE-NET'IC, a. [Gr. φρενετικος. See Phrensy.]

Subject to strong or violent sallies of imagination or excitement, which in some measure pervert the judgment and cause the person to act in a manner different from the more rational part of mankind; wild and erratic; partially mad. [It has been sometimes written phrentic, but is now generally written frantic.]

PHRE-NET'IC, n.

A person who is wild and erratic in his imagination. – Woodward.

PHRE-NET'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In the manner of frenzy or delirium.

PHREN'IC, a. [from Gr. φρενες, the diaphragm.]

Belonging to the diaphragm; as, a phrenic vein.

PHRE-NI'TIS, n. [Gr. φρενιτις, from φρην, the mind. The primary sense of the root of this word is to move, advance or rush forward; as in L. animus, animosus, and the Teutonic mod, Eng. mood.]

1. In medicine, an inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium. – Encyc.
2. Delirium; phrensy. [It is generally written in English, phrensy or frenzy.]