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The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

A large subdivision of fungi coördinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

Physiology. [R.] Dunglison.

Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.]

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

The dissection of cartilages.

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

Inheritance; heritage.