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The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.

A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that which in printed from it. See Lithotypy.

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, lithotypy.

The art or process of making a kind of hard, stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated state.

Petrified wood. [Obs.]

Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.

See Lithontriptic.

A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.

An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.

A white, crystalline, aromatic substance resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (Mentha); -- called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

Having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.

The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

A radioactive product intermediate between thorium and radiothorium, with a period of 5.5 years.

Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind. Addison.

Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.