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An incision into the rectum, as for the division of a stricture.

Large and rounded. [Obs.] A gentle stream, whose murmuring wave did play Amongst the pumy stones. Spenser.

One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.

Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small. " Like that Pygmean race." Milton. Pygmy antelope (Zoöl.), the kleeneboc. -- Pygmy goose (Zoöl.), any species of very small geese of the genus Nettapus, native of Africa, India, and Australia. -- Pygmy owl (Zoöl.), the gnome. Pygmy parrot…

Like a ram; rammish. Burton.

rtaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum. His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers. Dryden. And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness. Shak.

Abounding with rime; frosty.

Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

ic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiæ is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.

A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.

An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement.

Dizziness with dimness of sight. [Obs.] Massinger.

Covered with scum; of the nature of scum. Sir P. Sidney.

Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them. "Many a seamy scar." Burns. Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side. Sir W. Scott.

The chamois.

A chemise. [Colloq.]

cous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime. Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.

Sluggish; slow. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to Smyrna. -- n.