<span class="searchmatch">micrographia</span> (uncountable) The condition of having small handwriting, sometimes a symptom of Parkinson's disease and related conditions. condition of having...
(plural fore edges) The front edge of something. 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>, section XXXVIII: [T]he fore-edge of this is arm'd with a multitude of...
] A rugged or irregular feature. [from 17th c.] 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>, section I: The surface of which […] could not nevertheless hide a multitude...
especially as used to make windows. [from 16th c.] 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>: [It] may be perhaps very much concerned in the business of its hardening...
formātrīx. formatrix (obsolete) A formative faculty. 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>, section XX: [W]e see that there may be a very pretty body shap'd and...
an oak gall wasp (tribe Cynipini). [from 15th c.] 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>, section XXV: [T]he small Apples which I have often observ'd to grow...
(plural optic axes) The optical axis. [from 17th c.] 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>, section XXXIX: [B]inocular creatures can in an instant […] move their...
light. (figurative) Illuminating; offering insight. 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>, section XXIV: [I]t affords a very pleasant object through the Microscope...
hamous, superlative most hamous) (obsolete) Hamose. 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>, section III: I am very apt to think, that the tenacity of bodies does...
superlative most opacating) Making or becoming opaque. 1665, Robert Hooke, <span class="searchmatch">Micrographia</span>, section III: First, that the substance of it should be made more clear...