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The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Cæsarean section.

s a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant] -- To milk a telegram, to use for one's own advantage the contents of a te…

The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.

. Blackstone. They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition. Landor. Modus operandi ( Etym: [L.], manner of operating.

The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows.

rom its discoverer. -- Multiple algebra, a branch of advanced mathematics that treats of operations upon units compounded of two or more unlike units. -- Multiple conjugation (Biol.), a coalescence of many cells (as where an indefinite number of amoeboid cells flow together into a single mass) from which conjugation…

a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division.

The act or operation of cleansing.

An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a f…

table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.

A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. [Archaic]

n contradistinction to mental or moral science. -- Natural selection (Biol.), a supposed operation of natural laws analogous, in its operation and results, to designed selection in breeding plants and animals, and resulting in the survival of the fittest. The theory of natural selection supposes that this has been bro…

inder which is continuous the whole length of the fiber. -- Nerve stretching (Med.), the operation of stretching a nerve in order to remedy diseases such as tetanus, which are supposed to be influenced by the condition of the nerve or its connections.

To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.

An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind. Dunglison.

structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian.

igures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.

or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love. Dryden.

Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.