epigraphy (epigrafi)

[= F. épigraphie = It. epigrafia, NL. epigraph i a, ledge which deals with the deciphering and explanation of inscriptions; epigraphics. Epigrahistory. It is principally and properly devoted to the consideration of inscriptions in the strict sense-that is, texts cut, engraved, or impre ed upon stone, bronze, or other material more or le rigid and durable, or one capable of becoming so, such as clay. Graffiti, or texts a science to philology, archæology, and consisting of characters incidentally scratched on a wall, etc., and dipinti, in which the characters are painted, not carved, are for convenience' sake also cla ed as inscriptions. On the other hand, the study of the lettering (legends, etc.) on coins belongs to numismatics. In England the new science of Greek epigraphy , which may be said to deal with the chronological and geograph ical cla ification of Greek inscription has found for Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, II. 2. epigynous (e-pij'i-nus), a. [ ἐπί , upon, + γυνή , a woman (in mod. bot. a pistil), + -ous.] In bot., growing upon the top of the ovary, or seeming to do so, as the corolla and stamens of the cranberry. Epihippus (ep-i-hip'us), n. Epigynous Stamens and [NL., Gr. ἐπί, upon, + ἱπ Petals in flower of Phila delph us coronarius. πος, horse.] A genus sil horses from the Upper Focene of North America, having four toes in front and three behind. Marsh, 1877. epihyal (ep-i-hi'al), a. and n. [ IMG:content-0610.png:[blocks in formation] the pro to mala or so-called mandible attached epileptogenous (ep"i-lep-toj'e-nus), a. [ What we have for brevity called the epilabra are the lam inæ fulcientes labri of Meinert. A. S. Packard , Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., XXI. 198.