Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PHO-NO-GRAPH'IC, or PHO-NO-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Descriptive of the sounds of the voice.

PHO-NOG'RA-PHIST, n.

One who explains the laws of the voice.

PHO-NOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. φωνη and γραφη.]

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

PHON'O-LITE, n. [Gr. φωνη, sound, and λιθος, stone.]

Sounding stone; a name proposed as a substitute for kling-stein [jingling stone].

PHON-O-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to phonology.

PHO-NOL'O-GIST, n.

One versed in phonology.

PHO-NOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. φωνη, sound, voice, and λογος, discourse.]

A treatise on sounds, or the science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including its various distinctions or subdivisions of tones. Du Ponceau.

PHO-RO-NOM'ICS, n. [Gr. φερω and νομος.]

The science of motion; an old term for mechanics.

PHOS'GEN, a. [Gr. φως, light, and γενναω, to generate.]

Generating light. Phosgen gas is generated by the action of light on chlorine and carbonic oxyd gas. It is composed of one equivalent of carbon, one of oxygen, and one of chlorine; and is now called chloro-carbonic acid, the name of phosgen gas having fallen into disuse. – Silliman.

PHOS'PHATE, n. [See Phosphor and Phosphorus.]

1. A salt formed by a combination of phosphoric acid with a salifiable base. – Lavoisier.
2. A mineral found in Estremadura, &c.

PHOS'PHITE, n.

A salt formed by a combination of phosphorous acid with a salifiable base. – Lavoisier.

PHOS'PHO-LITE, n. [phosphor and Gr. λιθος, a stone.]

An earth united with phosphoric acid. – Kirwan.

PHOS'PHOR, n. [Gr. φωσφορος; φως, light, from φαω, to shine, and φερω, to bring. See Phosphorus.]

The morning star or Lucifer; Venus, when it precedes the sun and shines in the morning. In this sense, it is also written Phosphorus. – Pope.

PHOS'PHOR-ATE, v.t.

To combine or impregnate with phosphorus.

PHOS'PHOR-A-TED, pp.

Combined or impregnated with phosphorus.

PHOSPHOR-A-TING, ppr.

Combining with phosphorus.

PHOS-PHOR-ESCE, v.i. [phosphoress'. See Phosphorus.]

To shine, as phosphorus, by exhibiting a faint light without sensible heat. Avenaceous limestone phosphoresces in the dark, when scraped wall a knife. – Kirwan.

PHOS-PHOR-ES'CENCE, n.

A faint light or luminousness of a body, unaccompanied with sensible heat. It is exhibited by certain animals, as well as by vegetable and mineral substances.

PHOS-PHOR-ES'CENT, a.

Shining with a faint light; luminous without sensible heat.

PHOS-PHOR-ES'CING, ppr.

Exhibiting light without sensible heat. – Cleaveland.

PHOS'PHOR-IC, a.

Pertaining to or obtained from phosphorus. The phosphoric acid is formed by a combination of phosphorus with oxygen to saturation.

PHOS'PHOR-ITE, n.

A species of calcarious earth; a subspecies of apatite.

PHOS-PHOR-IT'IC, a.

Pertaining to phosphorite, or of the nature of phosphorite. – Spallanzani.

PHOS'PHOR-OUS, a.

The phosphorous acid is formed by a combination of phosphorus with oxygen, in the proportion of two equivalents of phosphorus to three of oxygen.

PHOS'PHOR-US, or PHOS'PHOR, n. [L. from the Greek. See Phosphor.]

1. The morning star.
2. Phosphorus, in chimistry, a combustible substance, hitherto undecomposed. It is of a yellowish color and semi-transparent, resembling fine wax. It burns in common air with great rapidity; and in oxygen gas, with the greatest vehemence. Even at the common temperature, it combines with oxygen, undergoing a slow combustion and emitting a luminous vapor. It was originally obtained from urine; but it is now manufactured from bones, which consist in part of phosphate of lime. – D. Olmsted.