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Full of blossoms; flowery.

Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.

An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.

to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer.

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.

Tranquil; peaceful; calm. [Poet.] "A still and calmy day" Spenser.

The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation.

A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.

on of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]

The state of a communty which permits promiseuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.

been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway between the chalaza and micropyle. --Chal`a*zo*gam"ic (#), a.

Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

The art of judging character by the shape and apperance of the hand.

The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture [Obs.]

Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.

A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.

A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.