Vocabulary : Plying to Pneumatocyst

Plying : of Ply
Plymouth Brethren : The members of a religious sect which first appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren.
Pneometer : A spirometer.
Pneumatic : A vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with pneumatic tires. ;; Alt. of Pneumatical ;; Alt. of Pneumatical
Pneumatical : Adapted for containing compressed air; inflated with air; as, a pneumatic cushion; a pneumatic tire, a tire formed of an annular tube of flexible fabric, as India rubber, suitable for being inflated with air. ;; Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid. ;; Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments. ;; Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine. ;; Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
Pneumaticity : The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.
Pneumatics : That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics. ;; The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.
Pneumato- : A combining form from Gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.
Pneumatocele : A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.
Pneumatocyst : A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia.
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