sciomachy (siomaki)

See sciamachy. sciomancy (si'ō-man-si), n. [OF. sciomance Sp. It. sciomancia, As well the seedes As scions from the grettest roote ysette. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 53. Our scions , put in wild or savage stock. Hence-2. A descendant. Shak., Hen. V., iii. 5. 7. Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race. Byron, The Dream, ii. Was he proud - a true scion of the stock? Browning , Ring and Book, II. 331. scioptic (sī-op'tik), a. [=Pg. scioptico, scioptic the camera obscura, or the art of exhibiting luminous images in a darkened room. Also scioptric. Scioptic ball, a perforated globe of wood containing the lens of a camera obscura, fitted with an appendage by means of which it is capable of being turned on its center to a small extent in any direction, like the eye. It may be fixed at an aperture in a window-shutter, and is used for producing images in a darkened room.