Physcia (fisii)

[NL. (Fries, 1825), the skull strongly asymmetrical. To this family belong the sperm-whales proper ( Physeter inæ ), and such forms as the bottle-nosed whale ( Hyperoödon ). 2. In stricter use, a family of sperm-whales, typified by the genus Physeter, and containing the subfamilies Physeter inæ and Kogiinæ, or ordinary and pygmy sperm-whales. They have the head neither rostrate nor marginate; the snout high toward the front and projecting beyond the mouth; the skull high behind or retrorsely convex; the supra occipital bone projecting forward laterally to or beyond the ver 5. In dyeing , the nitro muriate of tin, or tin- spirits. - Culver's physic. See Culver's -physic. - In- dian physic. See bowman's - root and Gillenia . - Physic gardent, a botanic garden. =Syn. 2. See surgery . physic (fiz'ik), v . t .; pret. and pp. physicked , ppr. physicking . [ physic , n.] 1. To treat with physic or medicines; cure; heal; relieve. The labour we delight in physics pain. Shak ., Macbeth, ii. 3. 55. It physics not the sickne of a mind Broken with griefs. Ford , Broken Heart, ii. 2. or purgatives upon; purge. -3. To mix with some oxidizing body in or- der to eliminate phosphorus and sulphur, as in the manufacture of iron. He contended that sulphur could only be eliminated by two proce es, "puddling" and " physicking . " events have been brought about; geology separated, as far as po ible, from paleontology, or from any consideration of the order of succe ion and the nature of organic life upon the globe, and of the cla ification of the stratified formations in accordance therewith. - Physical horizon, influx, mineralogy, nece ity, optics. See the n - Physical influence. Same as physical influx . - Phys- ical partition, a partition by which the parts are are really, separated; real partition: opposed to ideal partition.- Physical perfection, po ibility, power. See the nouns. Physical signs, such features of disease as are directly appreciable by the examiner and are not the ex- pre ion by the patient of his own feelings, as those elicited by palpation, inspection, auscultation, percu ion, etc.- Physical truth, the harmony of thought with the phe- nomena of outward experience. -Physical whole, a whole composed of matter and form. =Syn. 2. Corporal , Corpo- real, etc. See bodily . 3. Chemical , etc. See mechanical . physicalist (fiz'i-kal-ist), n. [ physical + -ist .] One who maintains that man's intellectual and moral nature depends on and results from his physical constitution, or that human thought and action are determined by physical organ i- physical (fiz'i-kal), a . [Formerly also phisical ; = It. fisicale , physical is , pertaining to physic or medicine, physic a , natural philos- ophy, medicine: see physic.] 1. Pertaining to physics or natural philosophy: as, physical sci manner; according to nature; according to ence; physical law.-2. Of or pertaining to ma- terial nature; in accordance with the laws of nature; relating to what is material and per- ceived by the senses; specifically, pertaining 21. According to the art or rules of medicine. to the material part or structure of an organ- ized being, as opposed to what is mental or moral; mater:; bodily: as, physical force; physical strength. Veitch , Introd. to Des cartes's Method, p. xevi. 3. External; obvious to the senses; cognizable through a bodily or material organization: as, the physical characters of a mineral: opposed to chemical. See mechanical .-4t. Of or per- taining to physic, or the art of curing disease or preserving health, or one who profe es or practises this art; of or pertaining to a phys i- cian. To take Tobacco thus were phis i call , And might perhaps doe good. Times ' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 71. I have therefore sent him just now the following letter in my physical capacity. Tatler , No. 246. physicalne (fiz'i-kal-nes), n. The state of be- ing physical. Worcester . physician (fi-zish'an), n . [Early mod. E. also physic i on , phisicion , phys it i an , phys it i on , phis i- tion ; fisicien , fizicien , fisicion , fisician , fysycian , phisicien , phisicyen , etc., fisicien , fisician , fusicien , etc., phisicien , physicien , a nat- ural philosopher, also and usually a medical man, a physician (F. physicien , a natural phi- losopher), = Pr. phisician = It. fisiciano , a med- ical man, physician us , phys i- cus (> It. fisico = Sp. físico = Pg. physico ), a natural philosopher, a physician, ML. physic a , physics, medicine, physic: see physic .] 1. One who practises the art of healing disease and of preserving health; a prescriber of remedies for sickne and disease; specifically, a person li- censed by some competent authority, such as a medical college, to treat diseases and pre- Physique is after the seconde [part of theorike], Through which the philosophre hath fonde, Of late yeares I practised bodely phisick in Englande, in my lorde of Sumersettes house. W. Turner , Spiritual Physic (1555). 3. A medicine; a drug; a remedy for disease; also, drugs collectively. The frere with his phisik this folke hath enchaunted, And plastred hem so esyly the i drede no synne. Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. Shak ., Macbeth, v. 3. 47. IMG:content-0097.png:[blocks in formation] Shirley, Bird in a Cage, iii. 2. Aimwell . How now? what means this apothecary's shop about thee? art physical ? Shirley , Witty Fair One, iii. 4. Fowler. Sick, sick. 6t. Of or pertaining to the drugs or medicines used in the healing art; of use in curing disease or in preserving health; medicinal; remedial. Attalus would plant and set physic all herbs, as hel- leborum. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 739. Is Brutus sick? and is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humours Of the dark morning? Shak ., J. C., ii. 1. 261. Balmes, Oiles, Medicinals and Perfumes, Sa a par ill a, and many other physic all drugs. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 74. equation, etc. See the nouns. - Physical astronomy. See astronomy , 1. - Physical examination, an exam in a- tion for the determination of the presence or absence of the various signs of bodily disease. Physical-force men. See Chartist. - Physical fraction. See astronom- ical fraction , under fraction . - Physical geography, that branch of science which has for its object the comparison and generalization of geographical facts. It differs chiefly from geology in that it regards the present rather than the past condition of the earth, but many authors in- clude in their text-books of physical geography more or le of that which is generally considered as belonging to geology. Physical geography may be subdivided into va- rio us branches, of which the most important are - orog- raphy, the study of mountain-chains, and in general of the relief of the surface, in which branch geology can only with difficulty be separated from geography; thala ography , the study of the ocean, its outline, depths, currents, tem- perature, salinity, and the nature and distribution of ani mal and vegetable life on and beneath its surface hydrog . raphy, the of the river-systems, rivers, and lakes; climatology , the practical side of meteorology, or the study of the climatic conditions of various parts of the earth's surface; botanical geography , the study of the geo graph i- cal distribution of plants; zoological geography , the dis- tri but i on of animal life; and, finally, ethnology and anthro- pology , the study of the races of man and their distribu- tions, and their manners and customs. The last two branches, however, are special sciences, and are rarely treated, except in the most succinct manner, in the text- books of physical geography. - Physical geology, the study of the geological changes which have taken place on the earth's surface, and of the causes by which these physicist I do not think there is a doubt in the mind of any competent physicist or physiologist that we work done in lifting the weight of the arm is the mechanical equivalent of a certain proportion of the energy set free by the molecu lar changes which take place in the muscle. Hurley , Nineteenth Century, XXI. 495. 2. In biol ., one who seeks to explain fundamental vital phenomena upon purely physical or chemical principles; one who holds that life is a form of energy due simply to molecular movements taking place in the ultimate mole cules of the protoplasm, capable of lati on with the ordinary physical and chemical forces: opposed to vitalist. H. A. Nicholson. physicky (fiz'i-ki), a. [ Some authors name it cauda pavonis, on account of its inimitable beauty; the flowers have a physicky smell. Grainger, Sugar Cane, i., note 520.