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A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.

To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc. Calculus of operations. See under Calculus.

g smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic. Dunglison.

The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as:

According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly. You are blunt; go to it orderly. Shak.

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison.

Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.

which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.

A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. The returning paroxysms of diffidence and despair. South.

A salt of periodic acid.

A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women. Dunglison.

The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist (#), n.

Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic, or monodic.

A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog.

A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; --called also the inverted mordente.

A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical. Addison.