a. [ Gr. 'amfi`dromos running about or around. ] Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hydro-, 1 + mica. ] (Min.) A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elastic than ordinary muscovite. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hydromica schist (Min.), a mica schist characterized by the presence of hydromica. It often has a silky luster and almost soapy feel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; slanting, oblique + &unr_; a running, course; cf. F. loxodromique. ] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. [ 1913 Webster ]

Loxodromic curve or
Loxodromic line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ortho- + Gr. &unr_; to run. ] Of or pertaining to orthodromy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of palindromes. [ 1913 Webster ]