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surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew transformed. Milton.

The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.

The operation of dividing a bone or of cutting a piece out of it, -- done to remedy deformity, etc.

Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. Chaucer. "Her passing deformity." Shak. Passing note (Mus.), a character including a passing tone. -- Passing tone (Mus.), a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.…

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.

With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.

The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

In an ugly manner; with deformity.

A deformity in which the foot is turned inward. See Talipes.

A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.