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The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

The dissection of cartilages.

The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds. [Formerly written also cinnamule.]

Any operation for the removal of varices by incision. Dunglison.

Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

Inheritance; heritage.

members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. [Written also cenogamy.]

An operation for opening the colon

The science of the form and characteristics of the skull. [R.]

The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

ning, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowis." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau & Fl.

Full of crumb or crumbs.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.

The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.

The dominion of demons. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

agdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpæ. See Salpa.

second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.