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Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. Gen. xix. 5.

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.

Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy. The spumous and florid state of the blood. Arbuthnot. The spumy waves proclaim the watery war. Dryden.

The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.

Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper.

Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc. [Colloq.]

A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).

The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.

storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. "Beyond the stormy Hebrides." Milton.

The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior.

The position of two balls on the putting green such that, being more than six inches apart, one ball lies directly between the other and the hole at which the latter must be played; also, the act of bringing the balls into this position.

A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a subdivision. [R.] Many subdichatomies of petty schisms. Milton.

of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section. [Written also symphysotomy.] Dunglison.

Symphyseotomy.

Same as Synanthesis.

Symphyseotomy.

The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.

Brevity; conciseness. [R.]