Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PHAR-MA-CEU'TIC, a.

Relating to the preparation of medicines. [1841 Addenda only.]

PHAR-MA-CEU'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

In the manner of pharmacy.

PHAR-MA-CEU'TICS, n.

The science of preparing medicines. – Parr.

PHAR-MA-CEU'TIST, n.

One who prepares medicines.

PHAR'MA-CO-LITE, n.

Arsenate of lime, snow white or milk white, inclining to reddish or yellowish white. It occurs in small reniform, botryoidal and globular masses, and has a silky luster. – Dict.

PHAR-MA-COL'O-GIST, n. [Gr. φαρμακον and λεγω.]

One that is well skilled in or writes on drugs, or the composition and preparation of medicines. – Woodward.

PHAR-MA-COL'O-GY, n. [supra.]

1. The science or knowledge of drugs, or the art of preparing medicines.
2. A treatise on the art of preparing medicines. – Encyc.

PHAR-MA-CO-POE'IA, or PHAR'MA-CO-PY, n. [PHAR-MA-CO-PœIA. Gr. φαρμακον and ποιεω, to make.]

A dispensatory; a book or treatise describing the preparations of the several kinds of medicines, either with or without their uses and manner of application.

PHAR-MA-COP'O-LIST, n. [Gr. φαρμακον and πωλεω, to sell.]

One that sells medicines; an apothecary.

PHAR'MA-CY, n. [Gr. φαρμακεια, a medicament, whether salutary or poisonous.]

The art or practice of preparing, preserving and compounding substances, whether vegetable, mineral or animal, for the purposes of medicine; the occupation of an apothecary. – Encyc.

PHAR-MAK'O-LITE, n.

A native arseniate of lime.

PHA'ROS, n. [Gr. φαρος. This word is generally supposed to be taken from the name of a small isle, near Alexandria, in Egypt. But qu. is not the word from the root of fire, or from the Celtic fairim, to watch, and the isle so called from the tower upon it?]

1. A light-house or tower which anciently stood on a small isle of that name, adjoining the Egyptian shore, rivet against Alexandria. It consisted of several stories and galleries, with a lantern on the top, which was kept burning at night as a guide to seamen. – Encyc. Cyc.
2. Any light-house for the direction of seamen; a watch tower; a beacon.

PHAR-YN-GOT'O-MY, n. [Gr. φαρυγξ, the muscular am glandular bag that leads to the esophagus, and τεμνω, to cut.]

The operation of making an incision into the pharynx to remove a tumor or any thing that obstructs the passage. – Coxe.

PHAR'YNX, n. [Gr.]

The upper part of the esophagus; or a muscular bag leading to the esophagus.

PHASE, or PHA'SIS, n. [plur. Phases. Gr. φασις, from φαινω, φαω, to shine.]

1. In a general sense, an appearance; that which is exhibited to the eye; appropriately, any appearance or quantity of illumination of the moon or other planet. The moon presents different phases at the full and the quadrature.
2. In mineralogy, transparent green quartz. – Cyc.

PHAS'EL, n. [Gr. φασηλος or φασιολος.]

The French bean or kidney bean.

PHASM, or PHAS'MA, n. [Gr. from φαινω, φαω, supra.]

Appearance; fancied apparition; phantom. [Little used.] – Hammond.

PHAS'SA-CHATE, n.

The lead colored agate. [See Agate.] Encyc.

PHEAS'ANT, n. [phez'ant; Fr. faisan; It. fagiano; Sp. faysan; L. phasianus; Gr. φασιανος; Russ. phazan; supposed to be so named from the river Phasis, in Asia. But is it not from some root signifying to be spotted? See Class Bs, No. 34.]

A fowl of the genus Phasianus, of beautiful plumage, and its flesh delicate food.

PHEER, n.

A companion. [Sax. gefera.] [See Peer.]

PHEESE, v.t.

To comb. [See Fease.]

PHEES'ED, pp.

Combed; fleeced.

PHE'NE-CIN, n. [Gr. φοινιξ, purple.]

A purple powder precipitated when a sulphuric solution of indigo is diluted with water.

PHEN'GITE, n. [Gr. φεγγιτης, from φεγγω, to shine.]

A beautiful species of alabaster, superior in brightness to most species of marbles. – Encyc.

PHEN'I-COP-TER, n. [Gr. φοινικοπτερος, red winged; φοινικος, red, and πτερον, wing.]

A grallatory fowl of the genus Phœnicopterus, the flamingo, inhabiting the warm latitudes of both continents. – Hakewill.