helio-comb. form

1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 314 Seats of the Helio-arkite superstition.

1832 A. E. Bray Let. in Descr. Part Devonshire (1836) I. viii. 148 The ceremonies of the Helioarkite procession.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Heliocometes, a Phænomenon sometimes observ'd at the setting of the Sun. It was denominated Heliocometes by Sturmius and Pylen who had seen it, in Regard it seems to make a Comet of the Sun, being a large Tail, or Column of Light fix'd or hung to that Luminary, and dragging after it at his Setting.

1925 J. R. Harris Apollo's Birds 34 The culture which is now generally called helioculture.

1866 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 293 Notions about an arkite idolatry and a Helio-dæmonic worship.

1884 Nature 8 May 47/2 The helio-electric theory of the perturbations of terrestrial magnetism.

1886 Sci. Amer. 24 July 49/2 The helio-engraving by etching was brought to a high degree of completion by Klic, of Vienna, in 1883.

1885 A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 387 The ‘heliofugal’ power by which Comets' tails are developed.

1930 New Statesman 21 June 329/2 I..argued from that evidence that heliotherapy..must yield as an ideal to heliohygiene.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Heliolater.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Heliolatry.

1890 W. E. Gladstone Impregnable Rock (1892) 66 According to heliologists, the process does not even yet appear to be absolutely completed.

1886 Spectator 24 Apr. 545/1 The evolution of heliology.

1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Heliophobe, one whose eyes suffer from the sun's rays. Heliophobia, the fear of the sun's rays on the retina, such as occurs in albinism.

1886 J. Rattray in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. XXXII. 598 A heliophobic spore may often find enough of shade among the rhizoids of other pre-existing weeds.

1890 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 58 i. 459 On specimens of the so-called rhodotilite from Pajsberg a yellow mineral has been observed... The author names this mineral heliophyllite.

1968 I. Kostov Mineral. ii. vii. 467 Ekdemite is tetragonal, dimorphous with heliophyllite which is orthorhombic pseudotetragonal.

1902 Science 7 Feb. 223/2 The vector diagram in heliopolar coordinates takes the form of a conical surface around the Sun.

1898 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 422 The progressive movements of the larvæ of the gooseberry mite (Bryobia ribis Th.) are always positively heliotactic.

1904 Biol. Bull. 6 253 The mating habits of these highly heliotactic males and wingless females.

1898 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 422 (heading) Heliotaxis of larval mites.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I. 627/2 Heliotherapy, treatment of disease by exposure to sunlight.

1903 Lancet 11 July 104/1 The fundamental principles and practical applications of helio~therapy and phototherapy.

1921 Glasgow Herald 15 July 10 For the information of medical practitioners interested in heliotherapy.

1928 A. Huxley Let. 23 May (1969) 297 My medical uncle..says that he has known TB of the intestine greatly benefited by heliotherapy.

1903 Nature 19 Nov. 60 Two new methods have now superseded photozincography; one of these, ‘heliozincography’, was worked out by the Ordnance Survey... The first method consists in reproduction direct on a sensitised zinc plate in contact with a reversed negative.

1936 H. S. L. Winterbotham Key to Maps xix. 196 We have seen above how work from paper may go direct to the zinc by a process known as vandyking. To do the same with a negative and a sensitized sheet of zinc is known as heliozincography.