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a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Thine own lips testify against thee. Jeb xv. 6.…

An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.

mian glands, the slender sebaceous glands of the eyelids, which discharge, through minute orifices in the edges of the lids, a fatty secretion serving to lubricate the adjacent parts.

An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as:

The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. [R.] Derham.

The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded. Constriction and occlusion of the orifice. Howell.

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Any small orifice.

e is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

thus pratensis). Peep show, a small show, or object exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass. -- Peep-o'-day boys, the Irish insurgents of 1784; -- so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. [Cant]

The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.

One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

scissors (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. Wiseman.

The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.

To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth. When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems. Thomson.

ng it centrally, escapes at its periphery in a direction opposed to that of its motion by orifices at right angles, or inclined, to its radii.

The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance; specifically (Med.),

rrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.

A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.